CVE-2015-8955

Severity

69%

Complexity

34%

Confidentiality

165%

arch/arm64/kernel/perf_event.c in the Linux kernel before 4.1 on arm64 platforms allows local users to gain privileges or cause a denial of service (invalid pointer dereference) via vectors involving events that are mishandled during a span of multiple HW PMUs.

arch/arm64/kernel/perf_event.c in the Linux kernel before 4.1 on arm64 platforms allows local users to gain privileges or cause a denial of service (invalid pointer dereference) via vectors involving events that are mishandled during a span of multiple HW PMUs.

CVSS 3.0 Base Score 7.3. CVSS Attack Vector: local. CVSS Attack Complexity: low. CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H).

CVSS 2.0 Base Score 6.9. CVSS Attack Vector: local. CVSS Attack Complexity: medium. CVSS Vector: (AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C).

Overview

First reported 8 years ago

2016-10-10 10:59:00

Last updated 8 years ago

2016-11-28 19:50:00

Affected Software

Linux Kernel

Google Android (Nougat) 7.0

7.0

References

http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=8fff105e13041e49b82f92eef034f363a6b1c071

Issue Tracking, Patch

http://source.android.com/security/bulletin/2016-10-01.html

Vendor Advisory

93314

https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/8fff105e13041e49b82f92eef034f363a6b1c071

Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory

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