Privilege escalation vulnerability in arch/arm/kernel/sys_oabi-compat.c in Linux kernel before 4.4

CVE-2015-8966 · HIGH Severity

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

arch/arm/kernel/sys_oabi-compat.c in the Linux kernel before 4.4 allows local users to gain privileges via a crafted (1) F_OFD_GETLK, (2) F_OFD_SETLK, or (3) F_OFD_SETLKW command in an fcntl64 system call.

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