Security Advisory

CVE-2016-9806

CVE vulnerability detail - eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2016-12-28 07:42:00

Last updated 2024-08-06 02:59:03

Assigner mitre

CVSS score not scored

State PUBLISHED

Description

Race condition in the netlink_dump function in net/netlink/af_netlink.c in the Linux kernel before 4.6.3 allows local users to cause a denial of service (double free) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted application that makes sendmsg system calls, leading to a free operation associated with a new dump that started earlier than anticipated.

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