CVEvulnerability
CVE-2016-6156
5.1 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2016-08-06
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
- 5.1 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 1.9 LOW — AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
- Weaknesses
- CWE-362
Description
Race condition in the ec_device_ioctl_xcmd function in drivers/platform/chrome/cros_ec_dev.c in the Linux kernel before 4.7 allows local users to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds array access) by changing a certain size value, aka a "double fetch" vulnerability.
Affected configurations
• linux linux kernel (<= 4.6.6)
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-362 Concurrent Execution using Shared Resource with Improper Synchronization weakness
References
- http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=096cdc6f52225835ff503f987a0d68ef770bb78e Issue Tracking, Patch
- http://seclists.org/bugtraq/2016/Jul/20 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/91553 www.securityfocus.com
- https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=120131 Issue Tracking
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1353490 Issue Tracking
- https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/096cdc6f52225835ff503f987a0d68ef770bb78e Issue Tracking, Patch
- http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=096cdc6f52225835ff503f987a0d68ef770bb78e Issue Tracking, Patch
- http://seclists.org/bugtraq/2016/Jul/20 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/91553 www.securityfocus.com
- https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=120131 Issue Tracking
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1353490 Issue Tracking
- https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/096cdc6f52225835ff503f987a0d68ef770bb78e Issue Tracking, Patch