Double Fetch Vulnerability in MIC VOP Driver Allows Information Disclosure or Denial of Service

Double Fetch Vulnerability in MIC VOP Driver Allows Information Disclosure or Denial of Service

CVE-2016-5728 · MEDIUM Severity

AV:L/AC:M/AU:N/C:P/I:N/A:C

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.

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