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.
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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2016-06-27T10:00:00

Updated: 2024-08-06T01:07:59.982Z

Reserved: 2016-06-21T00:00:00

Link: CVE-2016-5728

cve-icon Vulnrichment

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2016-06-27T10:59:12.207

Modified: 2016-11-28T20:29:01.263

Link: CVE-2016-5728

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Moderate

Publid Date: 2016-04-27T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2016-5728 - Bugzilla