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Tracker / CVE-2016-4805

CVE-2016-4805

High 7.8

Use-after-free vulnerability in drivers/net/ppp/ppp_generic.c in the Linux kernel before 4.5.2 allows local users to cause a denial of service (memory corruption and system crash, or spinlock) or possibly have unspecified other impact by removing a network namespace, related to the ppp_register_net_channel and ppp_unregister_channel functions.

Affected products and versions

canonical ubuntu_linux
linux linux_kernel · 2.6.30 → 3.2.80
linux linux_kernel · 3.11 → 3.12.59
linux linux_kernel · 3.13 → 3.14.67
linux linux_kernel · 3.15 → 3.16.35
linux linux_kernel · 3.17 → 3.18.37
linux linux_kernel · 3.19 → 4.1.28
linux linux_kernel · 3.3 → 3.10.102
linux linux_kernel · 4.2 → 4.4.8
linux linux_kernel · 4.5 → 4.5.2
novell opensuse_leap
novell suse_linux_enterprise_desktop
novell suse_linux_enterprise_live_patching
novell suse_linux_enterprise_module_for_public_cloud
novell suse_linux_enterprise_real_time_extension
novell suse_linux_enterprise_server
novell suse_linux_enterprise_software_development_kit
novell suse_linux_enterprise_workstation_extension
oracle linux
redhat enterprise_linux

Analysis

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