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CVE-2017-6874

7.0 highEPSS 0.3%

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.

Severity

CVSS 3.1

7.0 high
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
EPSS
0.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 18% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
CWEs
CWE-362, CWE-416
Published
Modified
Record from
the NVD, synced

Affected

References

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