Tracker / CVE-2017-6874
CVE-2017-6874
High 7.0
Race condition in kernel/ucount.c in the Linux kernel through 4.10.2 allows local users to cause a denial of service (use-after-free and system crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact via crafted system calls that leverage certain decrement behavior that causes incorrect interaction between put_ucounts and get_ucounts.
Affected products and versions
| linux | linux_kernel · 4.10 → 4.10.4 |
|---|---|
| linux | linux_kernel · 4.9 → 4.9.16 |
Analysis
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