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Oracle Linux: CVE-2016-10906: ELSA-2020-5866: Unbreakable Enterprise kernel security update (IMPORTANT)

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Oracle Linux: CVE-2016-10906: ELSA-2020-5866: Unbreakable Enterprise kernel security update (IMPORTANT)

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
08/18/2019
Created
10/09/2020
Added
10/07/2020
Modified
08/06/2024

Description

An issue was discovered in drivers/net/ethernet/arc/emac_main.c in the Linux kernel before 4.5. A use-after-free is caused by a race condition between the functions arc_emac_tx and arc_emac_tx_clean.

Solution(s)

  • oracle-linux-upgrade-kernel-uek

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