PT-2017-17389

CVE-2017-6874

Published

2017-03-14

Updated

2023-06-21

Description by

CVSS 3.1

7.0

High

MetricsAV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Linux kernel versions prior to 4.10.2

Description A race condition exists in the Linux kernel, allowing local users to cause a denial of service, such as a system crash, via crafted system calls. This issue is related to incorrect interaction between put ucounts and get ucounts due to certain decrement behavior.

Recommendations For Linux kernel versions prior to 4.10.2, update to version 4.10.2 or later to resolve the issue.

Exploitability

Fix

Impacts

Researchers

Dmitry Vyukov

Jonghwan Kim

Vendors

Affected products

Weakness enumeration

CWE-362: Concurrent Execution using Shared Resource with Improper Synchronization (\'Race Condition\')

CWE-416: Use After Free