Security Advisory

CVE-2017-15126

CVE vulnerability detail — eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2018-01-14 06:00:00

Last updated 2024-08-05 19:50:16

Assigner redhat

State PUBLISHED

Description

A use-after-free flaw was found in fs/userfaultfd.c in the Linux kernel before 4.13.6. The issue is related to the handling of fork failure when dealing with event messages. Failure to fork correctly can lead to a situation where a fork event will be removed from an already freed list of events with userfaultfd_ctx_put().

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