PT-2015-6139

CVE-2015-3291

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Published

2015-07-23

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Updated

2016-12-22

Description by

CVSS 2.0
2.1
Low
MetricsAV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Linux kernel versions prior to 4.1.6
Description The issue allows local users to cause a denial of service by modifying the rsp register, issuing a syscall instruction, and triggering an NMI, due to improper determination of nested NMI processing in the Linux kernel 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
Impacts
Researchers
Vendors
Affected products
Weakness enumeration
CWE-17
Related identifiers
CVE-2015-3291
ALT-PU-2015-1699
ALT-PU-2015-1849
DSA-3313-1
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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