Security Advisory

CVE-2017-6001

CVE vulnerability detail — eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2017-02-18 21:40:00

Last updated 2024-08-05 15:18:49

Assigner mitre

State PUBLISHED

Description

Race condition in kernel/events/core.c in the Linux kernel before 4.9.7 allows local users to gain privileges via a crafted application that makes concurrent perf_event_open system calls for moving a software group into a hardware context. NOTE: this vulnerability exists because of an incomplete fix for CVE-2016-6786.

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