Security Advisory

CVE-2016-4805

CVE vulnerability detail - eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2016-05-23 10:00:00
Last updated 2024-08-06 00:39:26
Assigner mitre
CVSS score not scored
State PUBLISHED

Description

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.