CVEvulnerability
CVE-2016-9120
7.8 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2016-12-08
- 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-264, CWE-416
Description
Race condition in the ion_ioctl function in drivers/staging/android/ion/ion.c in the Linux kernel before 4.6 allows local users to gain privileges or cause a denial of service (use-after-free) by calling ION_IOC_FREE on two CPUs at the same time.
Affected configurations
• linux linux kernel (>= 3.14 < 3.16.40)
• linux linux kernel (>= 3.17 < 3.18.51)
• linux linux kernel (>= 3.19 < 4.1.41)
• linux linux kernel (>= 4.2 < 4.4.65)
• linux linux kernel (>= 4.5 < 4.6)
Related
Weakness · not in database (1)
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-416 Use After Free weakness
References
- http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=9590232bb4f4cc824f3425a6e1349afbe6d6d2b7 Issue Tracking, Patch, Vendor Advisory
- http://source.android.com/security/bulletin/2016-12-01.html Third Party Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/94669 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/9590232bb4f4cc824f3425a6e1349afbe6d6d2b7 Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=9590232bb4f4cc824f3425a6e1349afbe6d6d2b7 Issue Tracking, Patch, Vendor Advisory
- http://source.android.com/security/bulletin/2016-12-01.html Third Party Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/94669 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/9590232bb4f4cc824f3425a6e1349afbe6d6d2b7 Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory