Double Fetch Vulnerability in ec_device_ioctl_xcmd Function

CVE-2016-6156 · LOW Severity

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

Race condition in the ec_device_ioctl_xcmd function in drivers/platform/chrome/cros_ec_dev.c in the Linux kernel before 4.7 allows local users to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds array access) by changing a certain size value, aka a "double fetch" vulnerability.

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