CVEvulnerability

CVE-2017-6874

7.0 HIGH Published 2017-03-14 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2017-03-14
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
7.0 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
6.9 MEDIUM — AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
Weaknesses
CWE-362, CWE-416

Description

Race condition in kernel/ucount.c in the Linux kernel through 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.

Affected configurations

• linux linux kernel (>= 4.9 < 4.9.16) • linux linux kernel (>= 4.10 < 4.10.4)

Related

Weakness · CWE (2)

  • CWE-362 Concurrent Execution using Shared Resource with Improper Synchronization weakness
  • CWE-416 Use After Free weakness

References