CVE-2015-8963

CVSS 7 HIGHEPSS 1.4%CWE-362 CWE-416

Vexday Risk Score

21Low

SSVC decision (CISA)

Track

No exploitation signal → monitor

CVSS 7EPSS 1.4%KEV nãoPoC —Patch —

Lifecycle

16 Nov 2016Published on NVD

Recommendation: Monitor — no exploitation signal at the moment.

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.

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Affected products

n/a · n/a

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References

http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=12ca6ad2e3a896256f086497a7c7406a547ee373 https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/12ca6ad2e3a896256f086497a7c7406a547ee373 http://source.android.com/security/bulletin/2016-11-01.html http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/94207