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
2017-03-14T09:59:00Z
Modified
2026-03-15T14:27:43Z
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 put_ucounts and get_ucounts.

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"
            }
        ]
    }
]