{"id":"CVE-2017-6874","details":"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.","modified":"2026-03-15T14:27:43.209021Z","published":"2017-03-14T09:59:00.393Z","references":[{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/96856"},{"type":"FIX","url":"https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/040757f738e13caaa9c5078bca79aa97e11dde88"},{"type":"FIX","url":"http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=040757f738e13caaa9c5078bca79aa97e11dde88"}],"affected":[{"database_specific":{"unresolved_ranges":[{"events":[{"introduced":"4.9"},{"fixed":"4.9.16"}]},{"events":[{"introduced":"4.10"},{"fixed":"4.10.4"}]}],"source":"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2017-6874.json"}}],"schema_version":"1.7.5","severity":[{"type":"CVSS_V3","score":"CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H"}]}