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High severity7.8NVD Advisory· Published May 23, 2016· Updated Jun 17, 2026

CVE-2016-4805

CVE-2016-4805

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.

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