Detections
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CVE-2016-6516
high
Description
Race condition in the ioctl_file_dedupe_range function in fs/ioctl.c in the Linux kernel through 4.7 allows local users to cause a denial of service (heap-based buffer overflow) or possibly gain privileges by changing a certain count value, aka a "double fetch" vulnerability.
References
https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/10eec60ce79187686e052092e5383c99b4420a20
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1362457
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/92259