CVE-2016-5728

MEDIUM

Linux kernel <4.6.1 - Info Disclosure

Title source: llm

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.

References (12)

[Vendor Advisory] http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=9bf292bfca94694a721449e3fd752493856710f6

[Vendor Advisory] http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v4.x/ChangeLog-4.6.1

[Vendor Advisory] http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-3070-1

[Vendor Advisory] http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-3070-2

[Vendor Advisory] http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-3070-3

[Vendor Advisory] http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-3070-4

[Vendor Advisory] http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-3071-1

[Vendor Advisory] http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-3071-2

[Issue Tracking] https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=116651

[Vendor Advisory] https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/9bf292bfca94694a721449e3fd752493856710f6

[Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry] http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/538802/30/0/threaded

[Third Party Advisory] http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3616

Scores

CVSS v3 6.3

EPSS 0.0006

EPSS Percentile 19.2%

Attack Vector LOCAL

CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:H

Classification

CWE

CWE-119

Status draft

Affected Products (2)

debian/debian_linux

linux/linux_kernel < 4.6

Timeline

Published Jun 27, 2016

Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026