Tracker / CVE-2015-8963
CVE-2015-8963
High 7.0
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.
Affected products and versions
| linux | linux_kernel · … → 3.2.85 |
|---|---|
| linux | linux_kernel · 3.17 → 3.18.54 |
| linux | linux_kernel · 3.19 → 4.4 |
| linux | linux_kernel · 3.3 → 3.16.40 |
Analysis
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