CVE-2016-5728
- Source
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-5728
- Import Source
- https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2016-5728.json
- JSON Data
- https://api.test.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2016-5728
- Downstream
- Published
- 2016-06-27T10:59:12Z
- Modified
- 2025-08-09T20:01:27Z
- Severity
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- 6.3 (Medium) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:H CVSS Calculator
- Summary
- [none]
- Details
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Race condition in the vopioctl function in drivers/misc/mic/vop/vopvringh.c in the MIC VOP driver in the Linux kernel before 4.6.1 allows local users to obtain sensitive information from kernel memory or cause a denial of service (memory corruption and system crash) by changing a certain header, aka a "double fetch" vulnerability.
- References
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- http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=9bf292bfca94694a721449e3fd752493856710f6
- http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3616
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-3070-1
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-3070-2
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-3070-3
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-3070-4
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-3071-1
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-3071-2
- https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/9bf292bfca94694a721449e3fd752493856710f6
- https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=116651
- http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v4.x/ChangeLog-4.6.1
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/538802/30/0/threaded