Name: CVE-2016-6516: Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer
Creator: Rapid7
Published: 2016-08-06T00:00:00.000Z
License: https://www.rapid7.com/legal/website-terms-of-use/
Keywords: CVE, CVE-2016-6516, CWE-119, CWE-362, CVSS 7.4, EPSS 0.00516

Race condition in the ioctl_file_dedupe_range function in fs/ioctl.c in the Linux kernel through 4.7 allows local users to cause a denial of service (heap-based buffer overflow) or possibly gain privileges by changing a certain count value, aka a "double fetch" vulnerability.

CVSS Details

CVSS 3.1 Base Score: 7.4
CVSS 3.0 Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H)

Covered by Rapid7

Product	Vendor Advisory	Solution File	Added	Published
Debian	—	Upgrade linux	Jul 30, 2024	Aug 6, 2016
Suse	—	Upgrade kernel-docsUpgrade kernel-defaultUpgrade gfs2-kmp-defaultUpgrade cluster-md-kmp-defaultUpgrade kernel-obs-buildUpgrade dlm-kmp-defaultUpgrade ocfs2-kmp-default	May 20, 2018	Aug 6, 2016

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CVSS Details

Covered by Rapid7

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