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.
Affected products
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n/a n/a
n/aaffected
References
- http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=12ca6ad2e3a896256f086497a7c7406a547ee373 ↗
- http://source.android.com/security/bulletin/2016-11-01.html ↗
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/94207 ↗
- https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/12ca6ad2e3a896256f086497a7c7406a547ee373 ↗