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CVE-2016-6480

CVSS v3.0 5.1 (Medium)
51% Progress
CVSS v2.0 4.7 (Medium)
47% Progress
EPSS 0.10 % (43th)
0.10% Progress
Affected Products 1
Advisories 35
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Race condition in the ioctl_send_fib function in drivers/scsi/aacraid/commctrl.c in the Linux kernel through 4.7 allows local users to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds access or system crash) by changing a certain size value, aka a "double fetch" vulnerability.

Weaknesses
CWE-362
Concurrent Execution using Shared Resource with Improper Synchronization ('Race Condition')
CVE Status
PUBLISHED
CNA
MITRE
Published Date
2016-08-06 20:59:14
(8 years ago)
Updated Date
2018-01-05 02:31:06
(6 years ago)

Affected Products

Linux

Configuration #1

    CPE23 From Up To
  Linux Kernel 4.7 and prior versions cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel <= 4.7