Security Advisory
CVE-2016-5728
6.3
MEDIUM
Vulnerability Description
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.
Published Date
June 27, 2016
Official Source
NIST NVD Advisory