Denial of Service Vulnerability in perf_callchain_user_64 Function on ppc64 Platforms

Denial of Service Vulnerability in perf_callchain_user_64 Function on ppc64 Platforms

CVE-2015-6526 · MEDIUM Severity

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

The perf_callchain_user_64 function in arch/powerpc/perf/callchain.c in the Linux kernel before 4.0.2 on ppc64 platforms allows local users to cause a denial of service (infinite loop) via a deep 64-bit userspace backtrace.

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