CVE-2016-6480

medium

Description

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.

References

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https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1362466

http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/539074/30/0/threaded

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/92214

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017-0817.html

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2584.html

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2574.html

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-09/msg00001.html

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-08/msg00054.html

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-08/msg00053.html

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-08/msg00052.html

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-08/msg00051.html

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-08/msg00050.html

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-08/msg00049.html

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-08/msg00048.html

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2016-08-06

Updated: 2025-04-12

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 4.7

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

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 5.1

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

Severity: Medium

EPSS

EPSS: 0.00062