CVEvulnerability
CVE-2016-4805
7.8 HIGH
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- 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
- Weaknesses
- CWE-416
Description
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.
Affected configurations
• novell suse linux enterprise desktop 12.0
• novell suse linux enterprise workstation extension 12.0
• novell suse linux enterprise module for public cloud 12.0
• novell suse linux enterprise server 11.0
• novell opensuse leap 42.1
• novell suse linux enterprise software development kit 11.0
• redhat enterprise linux 6.0
• canonical ubuntu linux 12.04
• linux linux kernel (>= 2.6.30 < 3.2.80)
• linux linux kernel (>= 3.3 < 3.10.102)
• linux linux kernel (>= 3.11 < 3.12.59)
• linux linux kernel (>= 3.13 < 3.14.67)
• linux linux kernel (>= 3.15 < 3.16.35)
• linux linux kernel (>= 3.17 < 3.18.37)
• linux linux kernel (>= 3.19 < 4.1.28)
• linux linux kernel (>= 4.2 < 4.4.8)
• linux linux kernel (>= 4.5 < 4.5.2)
• novell suse linux enterprise software development kit 12.0
• novell suse linux enterprise server 12.0
• redhat enterprise linux 7.0
• oracle linux 6
• novell suse linux enterprise real time extension 11.0
• novell suse linux enterprise real time extension 12.0
• novell suse linux enterprise live patching 12.0
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-416 Use After Free weakness
References
- http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=1f461dcdd296eecedaffffc6bae2bfa90bd7eb89 Patch, Vendor Advisory
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-06/msg00044.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-06/msg00052.html Mailing List, Release Notes, Third Party Advisory
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-06/msg00054.html Mailing List, Release Notes, Third Party Advisory
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-08/msg00000.html Mailing List, Release Notes, Third Party Advisory
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-08/msg00007.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-08/msg00044.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-08/msg00055.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3607 Third Party Advisory
- http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v4.x/ChangeLog-4.5.2 Mailing List, Vendor Advisory
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/05/15/2 Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/linuxbulletinjul2016-3090544.html Third Party Advisory
- http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/ovmbulletinoct2016-3090547.html Third Party Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/90605 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1036763 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-3021-1 Third Party Advisory
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-3021-2 Third Party Advisory
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1335803 Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/1f461dcdd296eecedaffffc6bae2bfa90bd7eb89 Patch, Third Party Advisory
- http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=1f461dcdd296eecedaffffc6bae2bfa90bd7eb89 Patch, Vendor Advisory
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-06/msg00044.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-06/msg00052.html Mailing List, Release Notes, Third Party Advisory
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-06/msg00054.html Mailing List, Release Notes, Third Party Advisory
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-08/msg00000.html Mailing List, Release Notes, Third Party Advisory
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-08/msg00007.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-08/msg00044.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-08/msg00055.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3607 Third Party Advisory
- http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v4.x/ChangeLog-4.5.2 Mailing List, Vendor Advisory
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/05/15/2 Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/linuxbulletinjul2016-3090544.html Third Party Advisory
- http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/ovmbulletinoct2016-3090547.html Third Party Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/90605 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1036763 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-3021-1 Third Party Advisory
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-3021-2 Third Party Advisory
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1335803 Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/1f461dcdd296eecedaffffc6bae2bfa90bd7eb89 Patch, Third Party Advisory