Published: 14/03/2017 Updated: 21/06/2023

CVSS v2 Base Score: 6.9 | Impact Score: 10 | Exploitability Score: 3.4

CVSS v3 Base Score: 7 | Impact Score: 5.9 | Exploitability Score: 1

VMScore: 614

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

Race condition in kernel/ucount.c in the Linux kernel up to and including 4.10.2 allows local users to cause a denial of service (use-after-free and system crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact via crafted system calls that leverage certain decrement behavior that causes incorrect interaction between put_ucounts and get_ucounts.

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Race condition in kernel/ucountc in the Linux kernel through 4102 allows local users to cause a denial of service (use-after-free and system crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact via crafted system calls that leverage certain decrement behavior that causes incorrect interaction between put_ucounts and get_ucounts ...

CWE-362 CWE-416 https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/040757f738e13caaa9c5078bca79aa97e11dde88 http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=040757f738e13caaa9c5078bca79aa97e11dde88 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/96856 https://nvd.nist.gov https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2017-6874

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