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Debian: CVE-2016-0723: linux -- security update

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Debian: CVE-2016-0723: linux -- security update

Severity
6
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:C)
Published
02/07/2016
Created
07/25/2018
Added
02/07/2016
Modified
03/23/2020

Description

Race condition in the tty_ioctl function in drivers/tty/tty_io.c in the Linux kernel through 4.4.1 allows local users to obtain sensitive information from kernel memory or cause a denial of service (use-after-free and system crash) by making a TIOCGETD ioctl call during processing of a TIOCSETD ioctl call.

Solution(s)

  • debian-upgrade-linux

References

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