PT-2015-7287 · Linux+4 · Linux Kernel+4

Fabio Olive Leite

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Published

2015-06-03

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Updated

2016-12-08

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CVE-2015-6526

CVSS v2.0

4.9

Medium

VectorAV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C
Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Linux kernel versions prior to 4.0.2
Description The issue allows local users to cause a denial of service, resulting in an infinite loop, via a deep 64-bit userspace backtrace. This is due to a problem in the perf callchain user 64 function in arch/powerpc/perf/callchain.c on ppc64 platforms.
Recommendations For versions prior to 4.0.2, update to version 4.0.2 or later to resolve the issue.

Exploit

Fix

DoS

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Weakness Enumeration

Related Identifiers

ALT-PU-2015-1485
ALT-PU-2015-1849
CESA-2015_2152
CVE-2015-6526
OPENSUSE-SU-2016_2144-1
RHSA-2015:2152
RHSA-2015_2152
USN-2759-1
USN-2760-1

Affected Products

Alt Linux
Centos
Linux Kernel
Red Hat
Suse