vulnerability
Debian: CVE-2016-5728: linux -- security update
| Severity | CVSS | Published | Added | Modified |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5 | (AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:C) | Jun 27, 2016 | Jul 4, 2016 | Mar 30, 2026 |
Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:C)
Published
Jun 27, 2016
Added
Jul 4, 2016
Modified
Mar 30, 2026
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.
Solution
debian-upgrade-linux
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