The vulnerability of the ipxitf_ioctl function in the Linux kernel’s net/ipx/af_ipx.c file, which allows a attacker to cause a service failure or exert other effects

The vulnerability of the ipxitfioctl function in the Linux kernel’s net/ipx/afipx.c file is related to an incorrect counting of pointers. Exploiting this vulnerability could allow a local attacker to cause a service failure i.e., the resource becomes unavailable after being released, or other...

DEBIAN-CVE-2017-7487

The ipxitfioctl function in net/ipx/afipx.c in the Linux kernel through 4.11.1 mishandles reference counts, which allows local users to cause a denial of service use-after-free or possibly have unspecified other impact via a failed SIOCGIFADDR ioctl call for an IPX interface...