CVE-2017-6874

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Source
https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2017-6874
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2017-6874.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2017-6874
Downstream
Published
2017-03-14T09:59:00.393Z
Modified
2026-03-15T14:27:43.209021Z
Severity
  • 7.0 (High) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H CVSS Calculator
Summary
[none]
Details

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 putucounts and getucounts.

References

Affected packages

Git /

Affected ranges

Database specific

source 
"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2017-6874.json"
unresolved_ranges 
[
    {
        "events": [
            {
                "introduced": "4.9"
            },
            {
                "fixed": "4.9.16"
            }
        ]
    },
    {
        "events": [
            {
                "introduced": "4.10"
            },
            {
                "fixed": "4.10.4"
            }
        ]
    }
]