vulnerability

Debian: CVE-2016-6156: linux -- security update

Severity
2
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
Aug 6, 2016
Added
Jul 30, 2024
Modified
Mar 30, 2026

Description

Race condition in the ec_device_ioctl_xcmd function in drivers/platform/chrome/cros_ec_dev.c in the Linux kernel before 4.7 allows local users to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds array access) by changing a certain size value, aka a "double fetch" vulnerability.

Solution

debian-upgrade-linux
Title
Rapid7 Labs

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