Security Advisory

CVE-2016-9120

7.8
HIGH

Vulnerability Description

Race condition in the ion_ioctl function in drivers/staging/android/ion/ion.c in the Linux kernel before 4.6 allows local users to gain privileges or cause a denial of service (use-after-free) by calling ION_IOC_FREE on two CPUs at the same time.
Published Date December 8, 2016
Official Source NIST NVD Advisory