Security Advisory

CVE-2015-7799

CVE vulnerability detail - eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2015-10-19 10:00:00

Last updated 2024-08-06 07:59:00

Assigner mitre

CVSS score not scored

State PUBLISHED

Description

The slhc_init function in drivers/net/slip/slhc.c in the Linux kernel through 4.2.3 does not ensure that certain slot numbers are valid, which allows local users to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and system crash) via a crafted PPPIOCSMAXCID ioctl call.

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