Published: 19/10/2015 Updated: 24/03/2017

CVSS v2 Base Score: 4.9 | Impact Score: 6.9 | Exploitability Score: 3.9

VMScore: 437

Vector: AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

The slhc_init function in drivers/net/slip/slhc.c in the Linux kernel up to and including 4.2.3 does not ensure that certain slot numbers are valid, which allows local users to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and system crash) via a crafted PPPIOCSMAXCID ioctl call.

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Several vulnerabilities have been discovered in the Linux kernel that may lead to a privilege escalation, denial of service, information leak or data loss CVE-2013-7446 Dmitry Vyukov discovered that a particular sequence of valid operations on local (AF_UNIX) sockets can result in a use-after-free This may be used to cause a denial o ...

Several security issues were fixed in the kernel ...

A flaw was discovered in the Linux kernel where issuing certain ioctl() -s commands to the "/dev/ppp" device file could lead to a NULL pointer dereference A privileged user could use this flaw to cause a kernel crash and denial of service ...

NVD-CWE-Other http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/10/10/3 https://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=187973 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1271134 http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-08/msg00038.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-04/msg00015.html http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2886-1 http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2843-1 http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2842-1 http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2844-1 http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-12/msg00005.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-12/msg00026.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-12/msg00031.html http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2841-1 http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2842-2 http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2843-3 http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2841-2 http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2843-2 http://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3426 http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-12/msg00018.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-12/msg00039.html http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1033809 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/77033 https://nvd.nist.gov https://www.debian.org/security/./dsa-3426 https://usn.ubuntu.com/2886-1/https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2015-7799

CVE-2015-7799

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