Tracker / CVE-2016-4951
CVE-2016-4951
High 7.8
The tipc_nl_publ_dump function in net/tipc/socket.c in the Linux kernel through 4.6 does not verify socket existence, which allows local users to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and system crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a dumpit operation.
Affected products and versions
| canonical | ubuntu_linux |
|---|---|
| linux | linux_kernel · 3.19 → 4.1.28 |
| linux | linux_kernel · 4.2 → 4.4.14 |
| linux | linux_kernel · 4.5 → 4.6.3 |
| oracle | linux |
Analysis
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