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CVE-2016-5728
MEDIUM · CVSS 6.3
EPSS exploitation probability: 0%
Published 2016-06-27T10:59:12.207 · Last modified 2026-06-17T00:49:56.540

Summary

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.

Affected products

debian — debian_linux

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References

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