CVE-2016-6516
- State
- Published
- Severity
- Not scored
- Published
- Aug 6, 2016
- Updated
- Aug 6, 2024
- Reserved
- Aug 1, 2016
Description
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.
Scores
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Weaknesses
The record names no weakness.
Affected Products
| Product | Versions |
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References
- https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/10eec60ce79187686e052092e5383c99b4420a20
- 92259vdb-entry
- [oss-security] 20160731 CVE Request: Linux <= 4.5 double fetch leading to heap overflowmailing-list
- http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=10eec60ce79187686e052092e5383c99b4420a20
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1362457
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