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SUSE: CVE-2016-0723: SUSE Linux Security Advisory

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SUSE: CVE-2016-0723: SUSE Linux Security Advisory

Severity
6
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:C)
Published
02/07/2016
Created
07/25/2018
Added
02/23/2016
Modified
02/04/2022

Description

Race condition in the tty_ioctl function in drivers/tty/tty_io.c in the Linux kernel through 4.4.1 allows local users to obtain sensitive information from kernel memory or cause a denial of service (use-after-free and system crash) by making a TIOCGETD ioctl call during processing of a TIOCSETD ioctl call.

Solution(s)

  • suse-upgrade-cluster-md-kmp-default
  • suse-upgrade-cluster-network-kmp-default
  • suse-upgrade-dlm-kmp-default
  • suse-upgrade-gfs2-kmp-default
  • suse-upgrade-kernel-default
  • suse-upgrade-kernel-docs
  • suse-upgrade-kernel-ec2
  • suse-upgrade-kernel-ec2-devel
  • suse-upgrade-kernel-ec2-extra
  • suse-upgrade-kernel-obs-build
  • suse-upgrade-ocfs2-kmp-default

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