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CVE-2016-5728

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.

Risk Information

Base Score
6.3
MODERATE
Vector
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:H
EPSS Score
Exploitation Probability
0.062

Associated Vulnerability

VulnerabilityOS Platform
Linux kernel (USN-3070-1) linux-image-4.4.0-36-generic_4.4.0-36.55_i386.debLinux
Linux kernel (USN-3070-1) linux-image-4.4.0-36-generic_4.4.0-36.55_amd64.debLinux
Linux kernel (USN-3070-1) linux-image-4.4.0-36-lowlatency_4.4.0-36.55_i386.debLinux
Linux kernel (USN-3070-1) linux-image-4.4.0-36-lowlatency_4.4.0-36.55_amd64.debLinux
Linux kernel (USN-3071-1) linux-image-3.13.0-95-generic_3.13.0-95.142_i386.debLinux
Linux kernel (USN-3071-1) linux-image-3.13.0-95-generic_3.13.0-95.142_amd64.debLinux
Linux kernel (USN-3071-1) linux-image-3.13.0-95-lowlatency_3.13.0-95.142_i386.debLinux
Linux kernel (USN-3071-1) linux-image-3.13.0-95-lowlatency_3.13.0-95.142_amd64.debLinux
Linux hardware enablement kernel from Trusty for Precise (USN-3071-2) linux-image-3.13.0-95-generic_3.13.0-95.142~precise1_i386.debLinux
Linux hardware enablement kernel from Trusty for Precise (USN-3071-2) linux-image-3.13.0-95-generic_3.13.0-95.142~precise1_amd64.debLinux

Patch Details

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References

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-1234
https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2023-1234