CVE-2017-6001

Race condition in kernel/events/core.c in the Linux kernel before 4.9.7 allows local users to gain privileges via a crafted application that makes concurrent perfeventopen system calls for moving a software group into a hardware context. NOTE: this vulnerability exists because of an incomplete fix for CVE-2016-6786.

References

Affected packages

Git /

Affected ranges

Database specific

source

"https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2017-6001.json"

unresolved_ranges

[
    {
        "events": [
            {
                "introduced": "3.18.54"
            },
            {
                "fixed": "3.18.92"
            }
        ]
    },
    {
        "events": [
            {
                "introduced": "4.0"
            },
            {
                "fixed": "4.4.65"
            }
        ]
    },
    {
        "events": [
            {
                "introduced": "4.5"
            },
            {
                "fixed": "4.9.7"
            }
        ]
    }
]