Use After Free Affecting torvalds/linux package, versions [,4.5.2)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.12% (32nd percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-TORVALDSLINUX-3006104
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed23 May 2016
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 23 May 2016

CVE-2016-4805  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-416  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade torvalds/linux to version 4.5.2 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Use After Free. 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.

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