UBUNTU-CVE-2016-6516

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Source
https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/UBUNTU-CVE-2016-6516
Import Source
https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices/blob/main/osv/cve/2016/UBUNTU-CVE-2016-6516.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/UBUNTU-CVE-2016-6516
Related
Published
2016-08-06T20:59:00Z
Modified
2016-08-06T20:59:00Z
Severity
  • 7.4 (High) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H CVSS Calculator
Summary
[none]
Details

Race condition in the ioctlfilededupe_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.

References

Affected packages

Ubuntu:16.04:LTS / linux-hwe

Package

Name
linux-hwe
Purl
pkg:deb/ubuntu/linux-hwe@4.8.0-36.36~16.04.1?arch=src?distro=xenial

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
4.8.0-36.36~16.04.1

Ecosystem specific 

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