Race Condition Leading to Use-After-Free in arc_emac_tx and arc_emac_tx_clean Functions

CVE-2016-10906 · MEDIUM Severity

AV:L/AC:M/AU:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

An issue was discovered in drivers/net/ethernet/arc/emac_main.c in the Linux kernel before 4.5. A use-after-free is caused by a race condition between the functions arc_emac_tx and arc_emac_tx_clean.

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