Security Advisory

CVE-2016-6156

5.1
MEDIUM

Vulnerability Description

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.
Published Date August 6, 2016
Official Source NIST NVD Advisory