CVE-2016-4805

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…

published May 23, 2016

CVSS
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EPSS
1%
Percentile
41.6
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

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.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS
Not scored
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00500 · 41.6th percentile
Published
2016-05-23T10:00Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 23 MAY 10:00Z
    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…
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