CVE-2015-8955

Name	CVE-2015-8955
Description	arch/arm64/kernel/perf_event.c in the Linux kernel before 4.1 on arm64 platforms allows local users to gain privileges or cause a denial of service (invalid pointer dereference) via vectors involving events that are mishandled during a span of multiple HW PMUs.
Source	CVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, bugtraq, EDB, Metasploit, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, Mageia, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more)

Vulnerable and fixed packages

The table below lists information on source packages.

Source Package	Release	Version	Status
linux (PTS)	buster	4.19.249-2	fixed
	buster (security)	4.19.269-1	fixed
	bullseye	5.10.158-2	fixed
	bullseye (security)	5.10.162-1	fixed
	bookworm, sid	6.1.20-1	fixed

The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.

Package	Type	Release	Fixed Version
linux	source	wheezy	(not affected)
linux	source	jessie	3.16.39-1
linux	source	(unstable)	4.1.3-1

Notes

[wheezy] - linux <not-affected> (Vulnerable code not present; arm64 introduced in 3.7)
Fixed by: https://git.kernel.org/linus/8fff105e13041e49b82f92eef034f363a6b1c071 (4.1-rc1)