vulnerability

Debian: CVE-2016-9120: linux -- security update

Severity
9
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)
Published
Dec 8, 2016
Added
Jul 30, 2024
Modified
Mar 30, 2026

Description

Race condition in the ion_ioctl function in drivers/staging/android/ion/ion.c in the Linux kernel before 4.6 allows local users to gain privileges or cause a denial of service (use-after-free) by calling ION_IOC_FREE on two CPUs at the same time.

Solution

debian-upgrade-linux
Title
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