Vulnerability CVE-2016-0723

Vulnerability CVE-2016-0723

Published: 2016-02-07 Modified: 2016-02-08

Description:

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.

CVSS2 => (AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:C)

CVSS Base Score	Impact Subscore	Exploitability Subscore
5.6/10	7.8/10	3.9/10

Exploit range	Attack complexity	Authentication
Local	Low	No required
Confidentiality impact	Integrity impact	Availability impact
Partial	None	Complete

Affected software
Linux -> Linux kernel

References:

http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=5c17c861a357e9458001f021a7afa7aab9937439

http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2016-February/176464.html

http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2016-February/176484.html

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-03/msg00094.html

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-04/msg00015.html

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-04/msg00045.html

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-07/msg00005.html

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-08/msg00038.html

http://source.android.com/security/bulletin/2016-07-01.html

http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3448

http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3503

http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/linuxbulletinjul2016-3090544.html

http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/ovmbulletinoct2016-3090547.html

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/82950

http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1035695

http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2929-1

http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2929-2

http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2930-1

http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2930-2

http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2930-3

http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2932-1

http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2948-1

http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2948-2

http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2967-1

http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2967-2

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1296253

https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/5c17c861a357e9458001f021a7afa7aab9937439

https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2016-0723

Vulnerability CVE-2016-0723

CVSS2 => (AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:C)

5.6/10

7.8/10

3.9/10

Local

Low

No required

Partial

None

Complete

Affected software

References: