fkie_cve-2015-8955
Vulnerability from fkie_nvd
Published
2016-10-10 10:59
Modified
2025-04-12 10:46
Severity ?
Summary
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.
References
Impacted products
| Vendor | Product | Version | |
|---|---|---|---|
| linux | linux_kernel | * | |
| linux | linux_kernel | * | |
| linux | linux_kernel | * | |
| android | 7.0 |
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