Published: 23/05/2016 Updated: 17/01/2023

CVSS v2 Base Score: 7.2 | Impact Score: 10 | Exploitability Score: 3.9

CVSS v3 Base Score: 7.8 | Impact Score: 5.9 | Exploitability Score: 1.8

VMScore: 642

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

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Use-after-free vulnerability in drivers/net/ppp/ppp_generic.c in the Linux kernel prior to 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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Several vulnerabilities have been discovered in the Linux kernel that may lead to a privilege escalation, denial of service or information leaks CVE-2015-7515, CVE-2016-2184, CVE-2016-2185, CVE-2016-2186, CVE-2016-2187, CVE-2016-3136, CVE-2016-3137, CVE-2016-3138, CVE-2016-3140 Ralf Spenneberg of OpenSource Sec ...

Several security issues were fixed in the kernel ...

Use-after-free vulnerability in drivers/net/ppp/ppp_genericc in the Linux kernel before 452 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 ...

CWE-416 http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=1f461dcdd296eecedaffffc6bae2bfa90bd7eb89 https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/1f461dcdd296eecedaffffc6bae2bfa90bd7eb89 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1335803 http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/05/15/2 http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v4.x/ChangeLog-4.5.2 http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-3021-1 http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-06/msg00052.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-06/msg00054.html http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-3021-2 http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-08/msg00000.html http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/linuxbulletinjul2016-3090544.html http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/ovmbulletinoct2016-3090547.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-06/msg00044.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-08/msg00055.html http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3607 http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-08/msg00044.html http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/90605 http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-08/msg00007.html http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1036763 https://nvd.nist.gov https://www.debian.org/security/./dsa-3607 https://usn.ubuntu.com/3021-2/

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