CVE-2016-7916
—CVSS 3.0
5.5 medium
EPSS
<1%p32
Published
()
Modified
Description
Race condition in the environ_read function in fs/proc/base.c in the Linux kernel before 4.5.4 allows local users to obtain sensitive information from kernel memory by reading a /proc/*/environ file during a process-setup time interval in which environment-variable copying is incomplete.
- Vendors
- linux
- Products
- linux kernel
- Weakness
- CWE-362
- Vector
- CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
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