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CVE-2015-3636: Use After Free

First published: Mon May 04 2015(Updated: )

It was found that the Linux kernel's ping socket implementation didn't properly handle socket unhashing during spurious disconnects which could lead to use-after-free flaw. On x86-64 architecture systems, a local user able to create ping sockets could use this flaw to crash the system. On non-x86-64 architecture systems, a local user able to create ping sockets could use this flaw to increase their privileges on the system. Note: By default ping sockets are disabled on the system (net.ipv4.ping_group_range = 1 0) and have to be explicitly enabled by the system administrator for specific user groups in order to exploit this issue. Upstream fix: <a href="https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/a134f083e79fb4c3d0a925691e732c56911b4326">https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/a134f083e79fb4c3d0a925691e732c56911b4326</a> References: <a href="http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/05/02/5">http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/05/02/5</a>

Credit: cve@mitre.org cve@mitre.org

Affected SoftwareAffected VersionHow to fix
Linux Linux kernel<=4.0.2
Debian Debian Linux=7.0
Redhat Enterprise Linux=6.0
Canonical Ubuntu Linux=12.04
debian/linux
5.10.223-1
5.10.226-1
6.1.115-1
6.1.119-1
6.11.10-1
6.12.5-1

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