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CVE-2016-4794

Description

Use after free vulnerability was found in percpu using previously allocated memory in bpf. First __alloc_percpu_gfp() is called, then the memory is freed with free_percpu() which triggers async pcpu_balance_work and then pcpu_extend_area_map could use a chunk after it has been freed.

Statement

This issue does not affect the Linux kernels as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4, 5 and 6.

This issue affects the Linux kernels as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 and MRG-2 and may be addressed in a future update.

Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) Score Details

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CVSS v2 Score Breakdown

Red HatNVDcve.org
Base Score7.27.2N/A
Attack VectorLocalLocalN/A
Access ComplexityLowLowN/A
AuthenticationNoneNoneN/A
Confidentiality ImpactCompleteCompleteN/A
Integrity ImpactCompleteCompleteN/A
Availability ImpactCompleteCompleteN/A

Vector

Red Hat: AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

NVD: AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

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