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CVE-2016-4794

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 …

Impact

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 products

VendorProductAffected versions
LinuxLinux Kernel
from 3.18 before 3.18.37
from 3.19 before 4.1.28
from 4.2 before 4.4.16
from 4.5 before 4.6.5
CanonicalUbuntu Linux
Versions 14.04, 16.04

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