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CVE-2015-8955

7.3 highEPSS 0.2%

High (7.3). EPSS 0.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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.

Severity

CVSS 3.1

7.3 high
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
EPSS
0.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 10% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
CWE
CWE-264
Published
Modified
Record from
the NVD, synced

Affected

References

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