suse · CVE-2016-4805

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Priority: low Published: 2021-05-30 13:42:30 UTC Updated: 2025-05-17 23:58:13 UTC

View at Official suse advisory, NVD, CVE.org · CVE detail

Freshness: upstream tracker timestamp is available; use API updated time as primary recency signal.

Tracker summary

CVE-2016-4805 severity low: SUSE including 168 source package names (kernel-bigsmp-3.0.101-0.47.86.1, kernel-bigsmp-base-3.0.101-0.47.86.1, …), 319 product×package rows across 35 product lines (SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 12, SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 12 SP1, … (35 product lines)): Fixed 313, Known Not Affected 6.

Description:

Use-after-free vulnerability in drivers/net/ppp/ppp_generic.c in the Linux kernel before 4.5.2 allows local users to cause a denial of service (memory corruption and system crash, or spinlock) or possibly have unspecified other impact by removing a network namespace, related to the ppp_register_net_channel and ppp_unregister_channel functions.

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