Security Advisory
CVE-2016-1583
7.8
HIGH
Vulnerability Description
The ecryptfs_privileged_open function in fs/ecryptfs/kthread.c in the Linux kernel before 4.6.3 allows local users to gain privileges or cause a denial of service (stack memory consumption) via vectors involving crafted mmap calls for /proc pathnames, leading to recursive pagefault handling.
Published Date
June 27, 2016
Official Source
NIST NVD Advisory