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Red Hat: CVE-2016-6480: Moderate: kernel security, bug fix, and enhancement update (RHSA-2017:0817)

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Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C)
Published
2016-08-06
Added
2016-11-04
Modified
2021-03-03

Description

Race condition in the ioctl_send_fib function in drivers/scsi/aacraid/commctrl.c in the Linux kernel through 4.7 allows local users to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds access or system crash) by changing a certain size value, aka a "double fetch" vulnerability.

Solution

redhat-upgrade-kernel

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