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VMware Photon OS: CVE-2016-6130

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Severity

CVSS

(AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N)

Published

Jul 3, 2016

Added

Jan 20, 2025

Modified

Mar 25, 2026

Description

Race condition in the sclp_ctl_ioctl_sccb function in drivers/s390/char/sclp_ctl.c in the Linux kernel before 4.6 allows local users to obtain sensitive information from kernel memory by changing a certain length value, aka a "double fetch" vulnerability.

Solution

vmware-photon_os_update_tdnf

References

CVE-2016-6130
https://attackerkb.com/topics/CVE-2016-6130
CWE-362
EUVD-EUVD-2016-7064
https://euvd.enisa.europa.eu/vulnerability/EUVD-2016-7064

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