Name | CVE-2015-8963 |
Description | Race condition in kernel/events/core.c in the Linux kernel before 4.4 allows local users to gain privileges or cause a denial of service (use-after-free) by leveraging incorrect handling of an swevent data structure during a CPU unplug operation. |
Source | CVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, bugtraq, EDB, Metasploit, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, Mageia, GitHub code/issues, web search, more) |
References | DLA-772-1 |
The table below lists information on source packages.
Source Package | Release | Version | Status |
---|---|---|---|
linux (PTS) | jessie, jessie (lts) | 3.16.84-1 | fixed |
stretch (security) | 4.9.320-2 | fixed | |
stretch (lts), stretch | 4.9.320-3 | fixed | |
buster | 4.19.249-2 | fixed | |
buster (security) | 4.19.269-1 | fixed | |
bullseye | 5.10.158-2 | fixed | |
bullseye (security) | 5.10.162-1 | fixed | |
bookworm | 6.1.15-1 | fixed | |
sid | 6.1.20-1 | fixed |
The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.
Package | Type | Release | Fixed Version | Urgency | Origin | Debian Bugs |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
linux | source | wheezy | 3.2.84-1 | DLA-772-1 | ||
linux | source | jessie | 3.16.39-1 | |||
linux | source | (unstable) | 4.4.2-1 |
Fixed by: https://git.kernel.org/linus/12ca6ad2e3a896256f086497a7c7406a547ee373 (v4.4)