CVE-2016-5728 | BDVDB-2026-76647 Detail
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.
Impact#
No impact statement in the source data.
Weaknesses#
No weakness recorded in the source data.
References#
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-3070-1
- http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v4.x/ChangeLog-4.6.1
- https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=116651
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-3070-3
- https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/9bf292bfca94694a721449e3fd752493856710f6
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-3070-2
- http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=9bf292bfca94694a721449e3fd752493856710f6
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-3071-1
- http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3616
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-3070-4
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/538802/30/0/threaded
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-3071-2
Exploit#
No public exploit known
History#
- Version 1Record published in the CVE List.
- Version 2Most recent update recorded in the CVE List.