vulnerability
SUSE: CVE-2016-6516: SUSE Linux Security Advisory
Severity | CVSS | Published | Added | Modified |
---|---|---|---|---|
7 | (AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C) | Aug 6, 2016 | May 20, 2018 | Jan 28, 2025 |
Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)
Published
Aug 6, 2016
Added
May 20, 2018
Modified
Jan 28, 2025
Description
Race condition in the ioctl_file_dedupe_range function in fs/ioctl.c in the Linux kernel through 4.7 allows local users to cause a denial of service (heap-based buffer overflow) or possibly gain privileges by changing a certain count value, aka a "double fetch" vulnerability.
Solution(s)
suse-upgrade-cluster-md-kmp-defaultsuse-upgrade-dlm-kmp-defaultsuse-upgrade-gfs2-kmp-defaultsuse-upgrade-kernel-defaultsuse-upgrade-kernel-docssuse-upgrade-kernel-obs-buildsuse-upgrade-ocfs2-kmp-default
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