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CVE-2017-6874
HIGH · CVSS 7
EPSS exploitation probability: 0%
Published 2017-03-14T09:59:00.393 · Last modified 2026-06-17T01:23:15.433

Summary

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

linux — linux_kernel

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