Security Advisory

CVE-2016-6480

5.1
MEDIUM

Vulnerability Description

Race condition in the ioctl_send_fib function in drivers/scsi/aacraid/commctrl.c in the Linux kernel through 4.7 allows local users to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds access or system crash) by changing a certain size value, aka a "double fetch" vulnerability.
Published Date August 6, 2016
Official Source NIST NVD Advisory