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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

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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