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** Changed in: linux (Ubuntu)
Status: Confirmed => Fix Released
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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1667046
Title:
CVE-2017-6074 DCCP vulnerability
Status in linux package in Ubuntu:
Fix Released
Bug description:
CVE-2017-6074 was made public today as a DCCP double-free
vulnerability that could allow for kernel code execution from an
unprivileged process.
This local root vulnerability is present in Linux kernel releases
going back at least to 2006 but potentially to 2005 when the code was
first introduced. It affects kernel builds with CONFIG_IP_DCCP.
Fixed upstream
https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=5edabca9d4cff7f1f2b68f0bac55ef99d9798ba4
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