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CVE-2017-15126 PUBLISHED

A use-after-free flaw was found in fs/userfaultfd.c in the Linux kernel before 4.13.6. The issue is related to the handling of fork failure when dealing with event messages. Failure to fork correctly can lead to a situation where a fork event will be removed from an already freed list of events with userfaultfd_ctx_put().

EPSS 1.15% · 78.4th percentile

Risk Scores

EPSS Score
1.15%
78.4th percentile

Affected Products

VendorProductVersions
Ubuntu:16.04:LTSlinux-azure0, 4.11.0-1009.9, 4.11.0-1011.11

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