Security Advisory
CVE-2016-4805
7.8
HIGH
Vulnerability Description
Use-after-free vulnerability in drivers/net/ppp/ppp_generic.c in the Linux kernel before 4.5.2 allows local users to cause a denial of service (memory corruption and system crash, or spinlock) or possibly have unspecified other impact by removing a network namespace, related to the ppp_register_net_channel and ppp_unregister_channel functions.
Published Date
May 23, 2016
Official Source
NIST NVD Advisory