CVE-2016-9120 in Kernel

Summary

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.

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• Reservation: 10/30/2016
• Disclosure: 12/08/2016
• Moderation: VulDB entry created
• Entries: VDB-93981 (1)
• CPE: ready
• CWE: CWE-416 (Confirmed)
• CVSS: 6.5
• EPSS: 0.00109
• Activities: Very Low

Sources

• MITRE: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2016-9120
• NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-9120
• CVE Details: https://www.cvedetails.com/cve/CVE-2016-9120/