Security Advisory

CVE-2015-8955

CVE vulnerability detail — eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2016-10-10 10:00:00
Last updated 2024-08-06 08:36:30
Assigner google_android
State PUBLISHED

Description

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.