CVEvulnerability

CVE-2016-2069

7.4 HIGH Published 2016-04-27 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2016-04-27
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
7.4 HIGH — CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
4.4 MEDIUM — AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
Weaknesses
CWE-362

Description

Race condition in arch/x86/mm/tlb.c in the Linux kernel before 4.4.1 allows local users to gain privileges by triggering access to a paging structure by a different CPU.

Affected configurations

• canonical ubuntu linux 12.04 • canonical ubuntu linux 14.04 • linux linux kernel (<= 4.4)

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-362 Concurrent Execution using Shared Resource with Improper Synchronization weakness

References