CVE-2016-6130

medium

Description

Race condition in the sclp_ctl_ioctl_sccb function in drivers/s390/char/sclp_ctl.c in the Linux kernel before 4.6 allows local users to obtain sensitive information from kernel memory by changing a certain length value, aka a "double fetch" vulnerability.

References

http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=532c34b5fbf1687df63b3fcd5b2846312ac943c6

https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=116741

https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/532c34b5fbf1687df63b3fcd5b2846312ac943c6

http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3616

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2016-07-03

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 1.9

Vector: CVSS2#AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

Severity: Low

CVSS v3

Base Score: 4.7

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

Severity: Medium