CVE-2016-0723

Published February 8th, 2016

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CVSS v3

N/A

CVSS v2

5.6

MEDIUM

Affected

PROJECT

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.

torvalds/linux

Linux kernel source tree

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