CVEvulnerability

CVE-2016-6516

7.4 HIGH Published 2016-08-06 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2016-08-06
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-119, CWE-362

Description

Race condition in the ioctl_file_dedupe_range function in fs/ioctl.c in the Linux kernel through 4.7 allows local users to cause a denial of service (heap-based buffer overflow) or possibly gain privileges by changing a certain count value, aka a "double fetch" vulnerability.

Affected configurations

• linux linux kernel (<= 4.7)

Related

Weakness · CWE (2)

  • CWE-119 Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer weakness
  • CWE-362 Concurrent Execution using Shared Resource with Improper Synchronization weakness

References