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CVE-2017-5546

Published: Feb 6, 2017

Modified: Aug 5, 2024

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Description

The freelist-randomization feature in mm/slab.c in the Linux kernel 4.8.x and 4.9.x before 4.9.5 allows local users to cause a denial of service (duplicate freelist entries and system crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact in opportunistic circumstances by leveraging the selection of a large value for a random number.

Vendor	Product	Versions
n/a	n/a	affected `n/a`

References

https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/c4e490cf148e85ead0d1b1c2caaba833f1d5b29f

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[oss-security] 20170120 Re: CVE REQUEST: linux kernel: process with pgid zero able to crash kernel

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https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1415733

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http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=c4e490cf148e85ead0d1b1c2caaba833f1d5b29f

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http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v4.x/ChangeLog-4.9.5

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vdb-entry

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