CVE-2016-10906 (GCVE-0-2016-10906)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2019-08-19 01:52 – Updated: 2024-08-06 03:38
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Summary
An issue was discovered in drivers/net/ethernet/arc/emac_main.c in the Linux kernel before 4.5. A use-after-free is caused by a race condition between the functions arc_emac_tx and arc_emac_tx_clean.
Severity
7.0 (High)
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE
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