CVE-2015-8967 (GCVE-0-2015-8967)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2016-12-08 21:00
Modified
2024-08-06 08:36
Severity ?
VLAI Severity ?
EPSS score ?
CWE
- n/a
Summary
arch/arm64/kernel/sys.c in the Linux kernel before 4.0 allows local users to bypass the "strict page permissions" protection mechanism and modify the system-call table, and consequently gain privileges, by leveraging write access.
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