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CVE-2016-6516

Published: Aug 6, 2016

Modified: Aug 6, 2024

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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.

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

References

https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/10eec60ce79187686e052092e5383c99b4420a20

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vdb-entry

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[oss-security] 20160731 CVE Request: Linux <= 4.5 double fetch leading to heap overflow

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http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=10eec60ce79187686e052092e5383c99b4420a20

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https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1362457

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