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CVE-2016-4805

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 corrupti…

Impact

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 products

VendorProductAffected versions
NovellSuse Linux Enterprise Desktop
Version 12.0
NovellSuse Linux Enterprise Workstation Extension
Version 12.0
NovellSuse Linux Enterprise Module For Public Cloud
Version 12.0
NovellSuse Linux Enterprise Server
Versions 11.0, 12.0
NovellOpensuse Leap
Version 42.1
NovellSuse Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit
Versions 11.0, 12.0
RedhatEnterprise Linux
Versions 6.0, 7.0
CanonicalUbuntu Linux
Version 12.04
LinuxLinux Kernel
from 2.6.30 before 3.2.80
from 3.3 before 3.10.102
from 3.11 before 3.12.59
from 3.13 before 3.14.67
from 3.15 before 3.16.35
from 3.17 before 3.18.37
OracleLinux
Version 6
NovellSuse Linux Enterprise Real Time Extension
Versions 11.0, 12.0
NovellSuse Linux Enterprise Live Patching
Version 12.0

Weakness classification

CWE-416

References