FKIE_CVE-2016-5728

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2016-06-27 10:59 - Updated: 2026-06-17 00:49
Severity
6.3 (Medium) - CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:H
Summary
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.
References
cve@mitre.orghttp://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=9bf292bfca94694a721449e3fd752493856710f6Vendor Advisory
cve@mitre.orghttp://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3616
cve@mitre.orghttp://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v4.x/ChangeLog-4.6.1
cve@mitre.orghttp://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/538802/30/0/threaded
cve@mitre.orghttp://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-3070-1
cve@mitre.orghttp://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-3070-2
cve@mitre.orghttp://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-3070-3
cve@mitre.orghttp://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-3070-4
cve@mitre.orghttp://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-3071-1
cve@mitre.orghttp://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-3071-2
cve@mitre.orghttps://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=116651
cve@mitre.orghttps://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/9bf292bfca94694a721449e3fd752493856710f6Vendor Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=9bf292bfca94694a721449e3fd752493856710f6Vendor Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3616
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v4.x/ChangeLog-4.6.1
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/538802/30/0/threaded
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-3070-1
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-3070-2
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-3070-3
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-3070-4
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-3071-1
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-3071-2
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=116651
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/9bf292bfca94694a721449e3fd752493856710f6Vendor Advisory
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
debian debian_linux 8.0
linux linux_kernel *
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