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Debian: CVE-2017-15649: linux -- security update

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Debian: CVE-2017-15649: linux -- security update

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
10/19/2017
Created
03/19/2019
Added
02/25/2019
Modified
02/24/2020

Description

net/packet/af_packet.c in the Linux kernel before 4.13.6 allows local users to gain privileges via crafted system calls that trigger mishandling of packet_fanout data structures, because of a race condition (involving fanout_add and packet_do_bind) that leads to a use-after-free, a different vulnerability than CVE-2017-6346.

Solution(s)

  • debian-upgrade-linux

References

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