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CVE-2016-4805
HIGH · CVSS 7.8
EPSS exploitation probability: 0%
Published 2016-05-23T10:59:13.443 · Last modified 2026-06-17T00:48:14.933

Summary

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

novell — suse_linux_enterprise_desktop

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References

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