Security Advisory

CVE-2016-6516

7.4
HIGH

Vulnerability Description

Race condition in the ioctl_file_dedupe_range function in fs/ioctl.c in the Linux kernel through 4.7 allows local users to cause a denial of service (heap-based buffer overflow) or possibly gain privileges by changing a certain count value, aka a "double fetch" vulnerability.
Published Date August 6, 2016
Official Source NIST NVD Advisory