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Tracker / CVE-2016-4581

CVE-2016-4581

Medium 5.5

fs/pnode.c in the Linux kernel before 4.5.4 does not properly traverse a mount propagation tree in a certain case involving a slave mount, which allows local users to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and OOPS) via a crafted series of mount system calls.

Affected products and versions

canonical ubuntu_linux
linux linux_kernel · … → 4.5.3
oracle linux

Analysis

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