PT-2015-6138

CVE-2015-3290

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Published

2015-07-23

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Updated

2024-09-27

Description by

CVSS 2.0
7.2
High
MetricsAV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Linux kernel versions prior to 4.1.6
Description The issue allows local users to gain privileges by triggering an NMI within a certain instruction window due to improper reliance on espfix64 during nested NMI processing in arch/x86/entry/entry 64.S on the x86 64 platform.
Recommendations For Linux kernel versions prior to 4.1.6, update to version 4.1.6 or later to resolve the issue.
Exploitability
Exploit
Fix
Researchers
Vendors
Affected products
Weakness enumeration
CWE-264
Related identifiers
CVE-2015-3290
ALT-PU-2015-1699
ALT-PU-2015-1849
DSA-3313-1
OPENSUSE-SU-2015_1382-1
OPENSUSE-SU-2015_1842-1
USN-2687-1
USN-2688-1
USN-2689-1
USN-2690-1
USN-2691-1
USN-2700-1
USN-2701-1
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