Privilege Escalation and Denial of Service Vulnerability in Linux Kernel's ecryptfs_privileged_open Function

Privilege Escalation and Denial of Service Vulnerability in Linux Kernel's ecryptfs_privileged_open Function

CVE-2016-1583 · HIGH Severity

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

The ecryptfs_privileged_open function in fs/ecryptfs/kthread.c in the Linux kernel before 4.6.3 allows local users to gain privileges or cause a denial of service (stack memory consumption) via vectors involving crafted mmap calls for /proc pathnames, leading to recursive pagefault handling.

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