Detections
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CVE-2017-5546
high
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.
References
https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/c4e490cf148e85ead0d1b1c2caaba833f1d5b29f
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1415733
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/95711
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/01/21/3