CVE-2016-5728
- State
- Published
- Severity
- Not scored
- Published
- Jun 27, 2016
- Updated
- Aug 6, 2024
- Reserved
- Jun 21, 2016
Description
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.
Scores
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Weaknesses
The record names no weakness.
Affected Products
| Product | Versions |
|---|---|
n/an/a |
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References
- USN-3070-1vendor-advisory
- http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v4.x/ChangeLog-4.6.1
- https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=116651
- USN-3070-3vendor-advisory
- https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/9bf292bfca94694a721449e3fd752493856710f6
- USN-3070-2vendor-advisory
- http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=9bf292bfca94694a721449e3fd752493856710f6
- USN-3071-1vendor-advisory
- DSA-3616vendor-advisory
- USN-3070-4vendor-advisory
- 20160630 [CVE-2016-5728] Double-Fetch Vulnerability in Linux-4.5/drivers/misc/mic/host/mic_virtio.cmailing-list
- USN-3071-2vendor-advisory
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