High severity7.0NVD Advisory· Published Mar 14, 2017· Updated Jun 17, 2026
CVE-2017-6874
CVE-2017-6874
Description
Race condition in kernel/ucount.c in the Linux kernel through 4.10.2 allows local users to cause a denial of service (use-after-free and system crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact via crafted system calls that leverage certain decrement behavior that causes incorrect interaction between put_ucounts and get_ucounts.
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References
3- git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/nvdIssue TrackingPatchThird Party Advisory
- github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/040757f738e13caaa9c5078bca79aa97e11dde88nvdIssue TrackingPatchThird Party Advisory
- www.securityfocus.com/bid/96856nvdThird Party AdvisoryVDB Entry
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