Oval Definition:oval:com.ubuntu.xenial:def:201768740000000
Revision Date:2017-03-14Version:1
Title:CVE-2017-6874 on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (xenial) - medium.
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.
Family:unixClass:vulnerability
Status:Reference(s):CVE-2017-6874
Platform(s):Ubuntu 16.04 LTS
Product(s):
Definition Synopsis
  • Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (xenial) is installed.
  • AND Package Information
  • linux-hwe package in xenial, is related to the CVE in some way and has been fixed (note: '4.10.0-27.30~16.04.2').
  • OR linux-meta-hwe package in xenial, is related to the CVE in some way and has been fixed (note: '4.10.0-27.30~16.04.2').
  • OR linux-signed-hwe package in xenial, is related to the CVE in some way and has been fixed (note: '4.10.0-27.30~16.04.2').
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