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Tracker / CVE-2016-6787

CVE-2016-6787

High 7.0

kernel/events/core.c in the performance subsystem in the Linux kernel before 4.0 mismanages locks during certain migrations, which allows local users to gain privileges via a crafted application, aka Android internal bug 31095224.

Affected products and versions

linux linux_kernel · … → 3.2.85
linux linux_kernel · 3.17 → 3.18.54
linux linux_kernel · 3.19 → 4.0
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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