CVE-2015-6526 (GCVE-0-2015-6526)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2015-08-31 20:00 – Updated: 2024-08-06 07:22
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Summary
The perf_callchain_user_64 function in arch/powerpc/perf/callchain.c in the Linux kernel before 4.0.2 on ppc64 platforms allows local users to cause a denial of service (infinite loop) via a deep 64-bit userspace backtrace.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
mitre CNA under the mitre root
CNA scorecard E 28/100 over 2359 records in the last 180 days details
References
Date Public
2015-05-06 00:00
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      "source": "Red Hat CSAF VEX",
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      "title": "kernel: perf on ppc64 can loop forever getting userlevel stacktraces",
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      "title": "SUSE CVE CVE-2015-6526",
      "url": "https://ftp.suse.com/pub/projects/security/csaf-vex/cve-2015-6526.json",
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}



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