CVE-2016-7916
- State
- Published
- Severity
- Not scored
- Published
- Nov 16, 2016
- Updated
- Aug 6, 2024
- Reserved
- Sep 9, 2016
Description
Race condition in the environ_read function in fs/proc/base.c in the Linux kernel before 4.5.4 allows local users to obtain sensitive information from kernel memory by reading a /proc/*/environ file during a process-setup time interval in which environment-variable copying is incomplete.
Scores
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Weaknesses
The record names no weakness.
Affected Products
| Product | Versions |
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n/an/a |
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References
- http://source.android.com/security/bulletin/2016-11-01.html
- https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=116461
- http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v4.x/ChangeLog-4.5.4
- USN-3159-1vendor-advisory
- https://forums.grsecurity.net/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=4363
- USN-3159-2vendor-advisory
- 94138vdb-entry
- http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=8148a73c9901a8794a50f950083c00ccf97d43b3
- https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/8148a73c9901a8794a50f950083c00ccf97d43b3
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