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Tracker / CVE-2015-3290

CVE-2015-3290

High 7.2

arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S in the Linux kernel before 4.1.6 on the x86_64 platform improperly relies on espfix64 during nested NMI processing, which allows local users to gain privileges by triggering an NMI within a certain instruction window.

Affected products and versions

linux linux_kernel · … → 3.12.47
linux linux_kernel · 3.13 → 3.14.54
linux linux_kernel · 3.15 → 3.16.35
linux linux_kernel · 3.17 → 3.18.22
linux linux_kernel · 3.19 → 4.1.6

Analysis

This page is not indexable yet.Until it carries original analysis — what it actually exposes, how to check in two minutes whether a system was touched, what to do if it was — the page stays noindex. The database decides that, not the template.

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