CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2015-8955

Published: Oct 10, 2016 | Modified: Oct 05, 2023
CVSS 3.x
7.3
HIGH
Source:
NVD
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS 2.x
6.9 MEDIUM
AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
Ubuntu

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.

Affected Software

Name Vendor Start Version End Version
Linux_kernel Linux * 3.16.39 (excluding)
Linux_kernel Linux 3.18 (including) 3.18.54 (excluding)
Linux_kernel Linux 3.19 (including) 4.1 (excluding)

References