Double Fetch Vulnerability in ioctl_send_fib Function in Linux Kernel

CVE-2016-6480 · MEDIUM Severity

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

Race condition in the ioctl_send_fib function in drivers/scsi/aacraid/commctrl.c in the Linux kernel through 4.7 allows local users to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds access or system crash) by changing a certain size value, aka a "double fetch" vulnerability.

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