CVE-2017-5546
- State
- Published
- Severity
- Not scored
- Published
- Feb 6, 2017
- Updated
- Aug 5, 2024
- Reserved
- Jan 20, 2017
Description
The freelist-randomization feature in mm/slab.c in the Linux kernel 4.8.x and 4.9.x before 4.9.5 allows local users to cause a denial of service (duplicate freelist entries and system crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact in opportunistic circumstances by leveraging the selection of a large value for a random number.
Scores
The record has no CVSS score.
Weaknesses
The record names no weakness.
Affected Products
| Product | Versions |
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n/an/a |
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References
- https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/c4e490cf148e85ead0d1b1c2caaba833f1d5b29f
- [oss-security] 20170120 Re: CVE REQUEST: linux kernel: process with pgid zero able to crash kernelmailing-list
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1415733
- http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=c4e490cf148e85ead0d1b1c2caaba833f1d5b29f
- http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v4.x/ChangeLog-4.9.5
- 95711vdb-entry
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