CVE-2016-5728 (GCVE-0-2016-5728)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2016-06-27 10:00 – Updated: 2024-08-06 01:07
VLAI
Summary
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.
Severity
6.3 (Medium)
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:H
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
References
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Date Public
2016-04-27 00:00
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