vulnerability

Red Hat: CVE-2016-7910: Important: kernel security and bug fix update (Multiple Advisories)

Severity
9
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)
Published
2016-11-16
Added
2017-04-11
Modified
2021-03-03

Description

Use-after-free vulnerability in the disk_seqf_stop function in block/genhd.c in the Linux kernel before 4.7.1 allows local users to gain privileges by leveraging the execution of a certain stop operation even if the corresponding start operation had failed.

Solution(s)

redhat-upgrade-kernelredhat-upgrade-kernel-rt
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