CVE-2016-5728

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.

• CVE ID
• CVE-2016-5728

• Assigner
• cve@mitre.org

• Vulnerability Status
• Modified

• Published Version
• 2016-06-27T10:59:12

• Last Modified Date
• 2016-11-28T20:29:01

• Version
• 2.0

• Vector String
• AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:C

• Access Vector
• LOCAL

• Access Compatibility
• MEDIUM

• Authentication
• NONE

• Confidentiality Impact
• PARTIAL

• Integrity Impact
• NONE

• Availability Impact
• COMPLETE

• Base Score
• 5.4

• Severity
• MEDIUM

• Exploitability Score
• 3.4

• Impact Score
• 7.8

• Version
• 3.0

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

• Attack Vector
• LOCAL

• Attack Compatibility
• HIGH

• Privileges Required
• LOW

• User Interaction
• NONE

• Scope
• UNCHANGED

• Confidentiality Impact
• HIGH

• Availability Impact
• HIGH

• Base Score
• 6.3

• Base Severity
• MEDIUM

• Exploitability Score
• 1

• Impact Score
• 5.2