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Tracker / CVE-2015-8967

CVE-2015-8967

High 7.8

arch/arm64/kernel/sys.c in the Linux kernel before 4.0 allows local users to bypass the "strict page permissions" protection mechanism and modify the system-call table, and consequently gain privileges, by leveraging write access.

Affected products and versions

google android · … → 7.0
linux linux_kernel · … → 3.18.54
linux linux_kernel · 3.19 → 3.19.8

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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