CVE-2015-8963

Published: Nov 16, 2016

Modified: Oct 15, 2024

PUBLISHED

Description

Race condition in kernel/events/core.c in the Linux kernel before 4.4 allows local users to gain privileges or cause a denial of service (use-after-free) by leveraging incorrect handling of an swevent data structure during a CPU unplug operation.

Vendor	Product	Versions
n/a	n/a	affected `n/a`

References

http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=12ca6ad2e3a896256f086497a7c7406a547ee373

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http://source.android.com/security/bulletin/2016-11-01.html

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94207

vdb-entry

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https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/12ca6ad2e3a896256f086497a7c7406a547ee373

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CVE-2015-8963

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