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CVE-2017-6346

Published: Mar 1, 2017

Modified: Aug 5, 2024

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Description

Race condition in net/packet/af_packet.c in the Linux kernel before 4.9.13 allows local users to cause a denial of service (use-after-free) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a multithreaded application that makes PACKET_FANOUT setsockopt system calls.

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

References

vdb-entry

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http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=d199fab63c11998a602205f7ee7ff7c05c97164b

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https://source.android.com/security/bulletin/2017-09-01

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http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v4.x/ChangeLog-4.9.13

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[oss-security] 20170228 Linux: packet: fix races in fanout_add() (CVE-2017-6346)

mailing-list

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vendor-advisory

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https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/d199fab63c11998a602205f7ee7ff7c05c97164b

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