CVE-2016-6516 in Linux

Riassunto

di MITRE

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.

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• Prenotare: 01/08/2016
• Divulgazione: 06/08/2016
• Moderazione: accettato
• Voce: VDB-90672
• CPE: pronto
• CWE: CWE-119 (confermato)
• CVSS: 7.4 (NVD)
• EPSS: 0.00949
• KEV: no
• Attività: molto basso
• Settore: Agriculture, Lawfirm, ...

Fonti

• MITRE: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2016-6516
• NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-6516
• CVE Details: https://www.cvedetails.com/cve/CVE-2016-6516/