Privilege Escalation via NMI Handling Vulnerability in Linux Kernel

CVE-2015-5157 · HIGH Severity

AV:L/AC:L/AU:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

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.

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