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CVE-2016-0723
MEDIUM · CVSS 6.8
EPSS exploitation probability: 0%
Published 2016-02-08T03:59:09.840 · Last modified 2026-06-17T00:38:05.653

Summary

Race condition in the tty_ioctl function in drivers/tty/tty_io.c in the Linux kernel through 4.4.1 allows local users to obtain sensitive information from kernel memory or cause a denial of service (use-after-free and system crash) by making a TIOCGETD ioctl call during processing of a TIOCSETD ioctl call.

Affected products

linux — linux_kernel

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References

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