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CVE-2017-6874

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 possi…

Impact

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 products

VendorProductAffected versions
LinuxLinux Kernel
from 4.9 before 4.9.16
from 4.10 before 4.10.4

Weakness classification

CWE-362CWE-416

References