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CVE-2016-0723

CVSS v3.0 6.8 (Medium)
68% Progress
CVSS v2.0 5.6 (Medium)
56% Progress
EPSS 0.16 % (53th)
0.16% Progress
Affected Products 1
Advisories 21
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Race condition in the tty_ioctl function in drivers/tty/tty_io.c in the Linux kernel through 4.4.1 allows local users to obtain sensitive information from kernel memory or cause a denial of service (use-after-free and system crash) by making a TIOCGETD ioctl call during processing of a TIOCSETD ioctl call.

Weaknesses
CWE-200
Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor
CWE-362
Concurrent Execution using Shared Resource with Improper Synchronization ('Race Condition')
CWE-NVD-Other
CVE Status
PUBLISHED
CNA
Red Hat, Inc.
Published Date
2016-02-08 03:59:09
(8 years ago)
Updated Date
2016-12-06 03:05:32
(7 years ago)

Affected Products

Linux

Configuration #1

    CPE23 From Up To
  Linux Kernel 4.4.1 and prior versions cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel <= 4.4.1