CVEvulnerability

CVE-2016-0723

6.8 MEDIUM Published 2016-02-08 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2016-02-08
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
6.8 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:H
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
5.6 MEDIUM — AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:C
Weaknesses
CWE-200, CWE-362

Description

Race condition in the tty_ioctl function in drivers/tty/tty_io.c in the Linux kernel through 4.4.1 allows local users to obtain sensitive information from kernel memory or cause a denial of service (use-after-free and system crash) by making a TIOCGETD ioctl call during processing of a TIOCSETD ioctl call.

Affected configurations

• linux linux kernel (<= 4.4.1)

Related

Weakness · CWE (2)

  • CWE-200 Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor weakness
  • CWE-362 Concurrent Execution using Shared Resource with Improper Synchronization weakness

References