vulnerability

Ubuntu: (Multiple Advisories) (CVE-2016-7914): Linux kernel vulnerabilities

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:N/A:N)
Published
Nov 16, 2016
Added
Aug 29, 2017
Modified
Mar 27, 2026

Description

The assoc_array_insert_into_terminal_node function in lib/assoc_array.c in the Linux kernel before 4.5.3 does not check whether a slot is a leaf, which allows local users to obtain sensitive information from kernel memory or cause a denial of service (invalid pointer dereference and out-of-bounds read) via an application that uses associative-array data structures, as demonstrated by the keyutils test suite.

Solutions

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