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CVE-2016-6156

Published: Aug 6, 2016

Modified: Aug 6, 2024

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Description

Race condition in the ec_device_ioctl_xcmd function in drivers/platform/chrome/cros_ec_dev.c in the Linux kernel before 4.7 allows local users to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds array access) by changing a certain size value, aka a "double fetch" vulnerability.

Vendor	Product	Versions
n/a	n/a	affected `n/a`

References

http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=096cdc6f52225835ff503f987a0d68ef770bb78e

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https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=120131

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https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/096cdc6f52225835ff503f987a0d68ef770bb78e

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vdb-entry

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https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1353490

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20160704 [CVE-2016-6156] Double-Fetch Vulnerability in Linux-4.6/drivers/platform/chrome/cros_ec_dev.c

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