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CVE-2016-6156
MEDIUM · CVSS 5.1
EPSS exploitation probability: 0%
Published 2016-08-06T20:59:08.050 · Last modified 2026-06-17T00:50:33.107

Summary

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.

Affected products

linux — linux_kernel

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References

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