CVE-2015-8955

Publication date

2016-10-10 10:00:00

Family

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.