CVE-2016-4794
High
CVE-2016-4794
Use-after-free vulnerability in mm/percpu.c in the Linux kernel through 4.6 allows local users to cause a denial of service (BUG) or possibly have unspecified other impact via crafted use of the mmap and bpf system calls.
Exploit probability
0.5%
Published
May 23, 2016
Required by
Not available
Last source change
April 16, 2026
02 / AFFECTED SOFTWARE
Affected packages
04 / EVIDENCE
Source records
Open Source Vulnerabilities
CVE-2016-4794
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Use-after-free vulnerability in mm/percpu.c in the Linux kernel through 4.6 allows local users to cause a denial of service (BUG) or possibly have unspecified other impact via crafted use of the mmap and bpf system calls.
05 / REFERENCES
Further evidence
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2574.html
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2584.html
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/05/12/6
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/90625
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-3053-1
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-3054-1
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-3055-1
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-3056-1
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-3057-1
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1335889
- https://lkml.org/lkml/2016/4/17/125
- https://source.android.com/security/bulletin/2016-12-01.html