CVE-2016-7914
- State
- Published
- Severity
- Not scored
- Published
- Nov 16, 2016
- Updated
- Aug 6, 2024
- Reserved
- Sep 9, 2016
Description
The assoc_array_insert_into_terminal_node function in lib/assoc_array.c in the Linux kernel before 4.5.3 does not check whether a slot is a leaf, which allows local users to obtain sensitive information from kernel memory or cause a denial of service (invalid pointer dereference and out-of-bounds read) via an application that uses associative-array data structures, as demonstrated by the keyutils test suite.
Scores
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Weaknesses
The record names no weakness.
Affected Products
| Product | Versions |
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References
- http://source.android.com/security/bulletin/2016-11-01.html
- RHSA-2016:2574vendor-advisory
- https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/8d4a2ec1e0b41b0cf9a0c5cd4511da7f8e4f3de2
- http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v4.x/ChangeLog-4.5.3
- 94138vdb-entry
- http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=8d4a2ec1e0b41b0cf9a0c5cd4511da7f8e4f3de2
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