Security Advisory

CVE-2015-5157

CVE vulnerability detail - eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2015-08-31 10:00:00

Last updated 2024-08-06 06:32:32

Assigner redhat

CVSS score not scored

State PUBLISHED

Description

arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S in the Linux kernel before 4.1.6 on the x86_64 platform mishandles IRET faults in processing NMIs that occurred during userspace execution, which might allow local users to gain privileges by triggering an NMI.

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