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2016-06-27
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.
| Products | Debian_linux, Linux_kernel |
| Type | Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer (CWE-119) |
| First patch |
https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/9bf292bfca94694a721449e3fd752493856710f6 |
| Relevant file/s | ./drivers/misc/mic/vop/vop_vringh.c (modified, +5) |
| Links |
• http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-3070-3
• http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-3070-2 • http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-3070-1 • http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-3071-2 • http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3616
• http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=9bf292bfca94694a721449e3fd752493856710f6
• http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-3071-1 • https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=116651 • http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/538802/30/0/threaded • http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-3070-4 • http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v4.x/ChangeLog-4.6.1 |
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