Vulnerability CVE-2016-5728
Published: 2016-06-27

Description:
Race condition in the vop_ioctl function in drivers/misc/mic/vop/vop_vringh.c in the MIC VOP driver in the Linux kernel before 4.6.1 allows local users to obtain sensitive information from kernel memory or cause a denial of service (memory corruption and system crash) by changing a certain header, aka a "double fetch" vulnerability.

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

CVSS Base Score
Impact Subscore
Exploitability Subscore
5.4/10
7.8/10
3.4/10
Exploit range
Attack complexity
Authentication
Local
Medium
No required
Confidentiality impact
Integrity impact
Availability impact
Partial
None
Complete
Affected software
Linux -> Linux kernel 
Debian -> Debian linux 

 References:
http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=9bf292bfca94694a721449e3fd752493856710f6
http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3616
http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v4.x/ChangeLog-4.6.1
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/538802/30/0/threaded
https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=116651
https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/9bf292bfca94694a721449e3fd752493856710f6
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