CVE-2016-7912

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Kernel Live Patch Security Notice LSN-0021-1

Posted Apr 15, 2017

Authored by Benjamin M. Romer

Several security issues were fixed in the kernel. Andrey Konovalov discovered that the AF_PACKET implementation in the Linux kernel did not properly validate certain block-size data. A local attacker could use this to cause a denial of service (system crash). Andrey Konovalov discovered a use-after-free vulnerability in the DCCP implementation in the Linux kernel. A local attacker could use this to cause a denial of service (system crash) or possibly gain administrative privileges. Various other issues were also addressed.

tags | advisory, denial of service, kernel, local

systems | linux

advisories | CVE-2016-5195, CVE-2016-7910, CVE-2016-7911, CVE-2016-7912, CVE-2016-7916, CVE-2016-8399, CVE-2016-8630, CVE-2016-8633, CVE-2016-9191, CVE-2016-9555, CVE-2016-9756, CVE-2017-2583, CVE-2017-6074, CVE-2017-7308

SHA-256 | 42b1d7e92d487c05901f19f08b2e6c9e119556985c2054e46a019c3a3bd7bf0d

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