CVEvulnerability

CVE-2016-4794

7.8 HIGH Published 2016-05-23 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2016-05-23
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
7.8 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
7.2 HIGH — AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Description

Use-after-free vulnerability in mm/percpu.c in the Linux kernel through 4.6 allows local users to cause a denial of service (BUG) or possibly have unspecified other impact via crafted use of the mmap and bpf system calls.

Affected configurations

• linux linux kernel (>= 3.18 < 3.18.37) • linux linux kernel (>= 3.19 < 4.1.28) • linux linux kernel (>= 4.2 < 4.4.16) • linux linux kernel (>= 4.5 < 4.6.5) • canonical ubuntu linux 14.04 • canonical ubuntu linux 16.04

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