CVEvulnerability
CVE-2016-7910
7.8 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2016-11-16
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 7.8 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 9.3 HIGH — AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
- Weaknesses
- CWE-416
Description
Use-after-free vulnerability in the disk_seqf_stop function in block/genhd.c in the Linux kernel before 4.7.1 allows local users to gain privileges by leveraging the execution of a certain stop operation even if the corresponding start operation had failed.
Affected configurations
• linux linux kernel (< 3.2.84)
• linux linux kernel (>= 3.3 < 3.10.103)
• linux linux kernel (>= 3.11 < 3.12.63)
• linux linux kernel (>= 3.13 < 3.14.76)
• linux linux kernel (>= 3.15 < 3.16.39)
• linux linux kernel (>= 3.17 < 3.18.40)
• linux linux kernel (>= 3.19 < 4.1.31)
• linux linux kernel (>= 4.2 < 4.4.18)
• linux linux kernel (>= 4.5 < 4.6.7)
• linux linux kernel (>= 4.7 < 4.7.1)
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-416 Use After Free weakness
References
- http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=77da160530dd1dc94f6ae15a981f24e5f0021e84 Exploit, Patch, Vendor Advisory
- http://source.android.com/security/bulletin/2016-11-01.html Third Party Advisory
- http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v4.x/ChangeLog-4.7.1 Release Notes
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/94135 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:0892 Third Party Advisory
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:1297 Third Party Advisory
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:1298 Third Party Advisory
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:1308 Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/77da160530dd1dc94f6ae15a981f24e5f0021e84 Exploit, Patch, Vendor Advisory
- http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=77da160530dd1dc94f6ae15a981f24e5f0021e84 Exploit, Patch, Vendor Advisory
- http://source.android.com/security/bulletin/2016-11-01.html Third Party Advisory
- http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v4.x/ChangeLog-4.7.1 Release Notes
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/94135 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:0892 Third Party Advisory
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:1297 Third Party Advisory
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:1298 Third Party Advisory
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:1308 Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/77da160530dd1dc94f6ae15a981f24e5f0021e84 Exploit, Patch, Vendor Advisory