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CVE-2015-8967

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.8 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.8% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2016-12-08 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-264

Description

arch/arm64/kernel/sys.c in the Linux kernel before 4.0 allows local users to bypass the "strict page permissions" protection mechanism and modify the system-call table, and consequently gain privileges, by leveraging write access.

Affected products

• Android: through 7.0
• Linux kernel: through 3.18.54; from 3.19 through 3.19.8

References

• http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=c623b33b4e9599c6ac5076f7db7369eb9869aa04
• http://source.android.com/security/bulletin/2016-12-01.html
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/94680
• https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/c623b33b4e9599c6ac5076f7db7369eb9869aa04
• http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=c623b33b4e9599c6ac5076f7db7369eb9869aa04
• http://source.android.com/security/bulletin/2016-12-01.html
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/94680
• https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/c623b33b4e9599c6ac5076f7db7369eb9869aa04

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