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CVE-2016-9120
HIGH · CVSS 7.8
EPSS exploitation probability: 0%
Published 2016-12-08T21:59:02.443 · Last modified 2026-06-17T00:55:33.110

Summary

Race condition in the ion_ioctl function in drivers/staging/android/ion/ion.c in the Linux kernel before 4.6 allows local users to gain privileges or cause a denial of service (use-after-free) by calling ION_IOC_FREE on two CPUs at the same time.

Affected products

linux — linux_kernel

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