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CVE-2017-6001 - log back

CVE-2017-6001 created at 25 Sep 2019 19:31:40
Severity	+ High
Remote	+ Local
Type	+ Privilege escalation
Description	+ Race condition in kernel/events/core.c in the Linux kernel before 4.9.7 allows local users to gain privileges via a crafted application that makes concurrent perf_event_open system calls for moving a software group into a hardware context. NOTE: this vulnerability exists because of an incomplete fix for CVE-2016-6786.
References	+ https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/321027c1fe77f892f4ea07846aeae08cefbbb290 + http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2017/q1/446
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