Denial Of Service (DoS)

Linux kernel is vulnerable to denial of service. A NULL pointer dereference in the netlinknscapable function in net/netlink/afnetlink.c allows a local attacker to create a malicious net namespace with a netnsid to cause a kernel panic and crash the system...

Null pointer dereference

The Linux kernel before 4.15-rc8 was found to be vulnerable to a NULL pointer dereference bug in the netlinknscapable function in the net/netlink/afnetlink.c file. A local attacker could exploit this when a net namespace with a netnsid is assigned to cause a kernel panic and a denial of service...