CVE-2016-4951

Publication date

2016-05-23 10:00:00

Family

mitre

State

PUBLISHED

Description

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.