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Tracker / CVE-2016-4794

CVE-2016-4794

High 7.8

Use-after-free vulnerability in mm/percpu.c in the Linux kernel through 4.6 allows local users to cause a denial of service (BUG) or possibly have unspecified other impact via crafted use of the mmap and bpf system calls.

Affected products and versions

canonical ubuntu_linux
linux linux_kernel · 3.18 → 3.18.37
linux linux_kernel · 3.19 → 4.1.28
linux linux_kernel · 4.2 → 4.4.16
linux linux_kernel · 4.5 → 4.6.5

Analysis

This page is not indexable yet.Until it carries original analysis — what it actually exposes, how to check in two minutes whether a system was touched, what to do if it was — the page stays noindex. The database decides that, not the template.

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