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.
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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2017-03-14T09:02:00

Updated: 2024-08-05T15:41:17.699Z

Reserved: 2017-03-14T00:00:00

Link: CVE-2017-6874

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Analyzed

Published: 2017-03-14T09:59:00.393

Modified: 2023-06-21T15:56:30.557

Link: CVE-2017-6874

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Moderate

Publid Date: 2017-03-06T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2017-6874 - Bugzilla