CVE-2015-6526

Publication date

2015-08-31 20:00:00

Family

mitre

State

PUBLISHED

Description

The perf_callchain_user_64 function in arch/powerpc/perf/callchain.c in the Linux kernel before 4.0.2 on ppc64 platforms allows local users to cause a denial of service (infinite loop) via a deep 64-bit userspace backtrace.