CVEvulnerability

CVE-2016-5728

6.3 MEDIUM Published 2016-06-27 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2016-06-27
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
6.3 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:H
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
5.4 MEDIUM — AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:C
Weaknesses
CWE-119

Description

Race condition in the vop_ioctl function in drivers/misc/mic/vop/vop_vringh.c in the MIC VOP driver in the Linux kernel before 4.6.1 allows local users to obtain sensitive information from kernel memory or cause a denial of service (memory corruption and system crash) by changing a certain header, aka a "double fetch" vulnerability.

Affected configurations

• debian debian linux 8.0 • linux linux kernel (<= 4.6)

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-119 Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer weakness

References