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CVE-2016-4805 High

CVE-2016-4805

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.

Exploit probability 0.5%
Published May 23, 2016
Required by Not available
Last source change April 1, 2026

02 / AFFECTED SOFTWARE

Affected packages

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03 / CONNECTIONS

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04 / EVIDENCE

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Open Source Vulnerabilities CVE-2016-4805

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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05 / REFERENCES

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