CVE-2016-4794 Information

Description

Use-after-free vulnerability in mm/percpu.c in the Linux kernel through 4.6 allows local users to cause a denial of service (BUG) or possibly have unspecified other impact via crafted use of the mmap and bpf system calls.

CVSS Vector

CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Reference

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2574.html http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2584.html http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/05/12/6 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/90625 http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-3053-1 http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-3054-1 http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-3055-1 http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-3056-1 http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-3057-1 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1335889 https://lkml.org/lkml/2016/4/17/125 https://source.android.com/security/bulletin/2016-12-01.html

Attack Complexity

LOW

Privileges Required

LOW

User Interaction Required

LOW

Scope

NONE

Confidentiality Impact

UNCHANGED

Integrity Impact

HIGH

Availability Impact

HIGH

Base Score

HIGH

Base Severity

7.8