CVE-2016-6516

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CVSS v3
N/A
CVSS v2
4.4
MEDIUM
Affected
1
PROJECT

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.

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