CVE-2016-5728

CVE-2016-5728
MEDIUM 6.3

At a glance

Source
NVD
EPSS
EPSS 0.40 % · percentile 35 ()
State
PUBLISHED
Published
Updated
Assigner
mitre
NVD status
Modified

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.

Weaknesses (CWE)

  • CWE-119 — Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer

References

Scores

VersionScoreVectorScored by
CVSS 3.0MEDIUM 6.3CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:HNVD · nvd@nist.gov (Primary)
CVSS 2.0MEDIUM 5.4AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:CNVD · nvd@nist.gov (Primary)

European references

CERT-FR advisories

Affected configurations (NVD CPE)

Affected products

ProductVersions
affected n/a

Sources

SourceLicence
CVE List (CVEProject cvelistV5)CVE Program Terms of Use
EPSS (FIRST.org)FIRST — attribution requested
ENISA EUVDENISA — reproduction authorised, source acknowledged
CERT-FR (ANSSI)Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0
NVD (NIST) via fkie-cad/nvd-json-data-feedsPublic domain — this product uses data from the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD