CVE-2015-5157

Published
View on NVD ↗
CVSS v3
N/A
CVSS v2
7.2
HIGH
Affected
1
PROJECT

Description

arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S in the Linux kernel before 4.1.6 on the x86_64 platform mishandles IRET faults in processing NMIs that occurred during userspace execution, which might allow local users to gain privileges by triggering an NMI.

Linux kernel source tree
GitHubGitHub
237K