CVE-2016-6516
—CVSS 3.0
7.4 high
EPSS
<1%p59
Published
()
Modified
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.
- Vendors
- linux
- Products
- linux kernel
- Weakness
- CWE-119, CWE-362
- Vector
- CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
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