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
| Vector | AV: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
Affected Products
Alt Linux
Centos
Linux Kernel
Red Hat
Suse