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CVE-2016-4805
high
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.
References
https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/1f461dcdd296eecedaffffc6bae2bfa90bd7eb89
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1335803
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-3021-2
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-3021-1
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1036763
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/90605
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/ovmbulletinoct2016-3090547.html
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/linuxbulletinjul2016-3090544.html
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/05/15/2
http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3607
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-08/msg00055.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-08/msg00044.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-08/msg00007.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-08/msg00000.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-06/msg00054.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-06/msg00052.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-06/msg00044.html