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CVE-2016-5728
Published: Jun 27, 2016
Modified: Aug 6, 2024
PUBLISHED
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.
| Vendor | Product | Versions |
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n/a | n/a | affected n/a |
References
USN-3070-1
vendor-advisory
x_refsource_UBUNTU
http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v4.x/ChangeLog-4.6.1
x_refsource_CONFIRM
https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=116651
x_refsource_CONFIRM
USN-3070-3
vendor-advisory
x_refsource_UBUNTU
USN-3070-2
vendor-advisory
x_refsource_UBUNTU
USN-3071-1
vendor-advisory
x_refsource_UBUNTU
DSA-3616
vendor-advisory
x_refsource_DEBIAN
USN-3070-4
vendor-advisory
x_refsource_UBUNTU
20160630 [CVE-2016-5728] Double-Fetch Vulnerability in Linux-4.5/drivers/misc/mic/host/mic_virtio.c
mailing-list
x_refsource_BUGTRAQ
USN-3071-2
vendor-advisory
x_refsource_UBUNTU
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