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Tracker / CVE-2015-8955

CVE-2015-8955

High 7.3

arch/arm64/kernel/perf_event.c in the Linux kernel before 4.1 on arm64 platforms allows local users to gain privileges or cause a denial of service (invalid pointer dereference) via vectors involving events that are mishandled during a span of multiple HW PMUs.

Affected products and versions

google android
linux linux_kernel · … → 3.16.39
linux linux_kernel · 3.18 → 3.18.54
linux linux_kernel · 3.19 → 4.1

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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