The assoc_array_insert_into_terminal_node function in lib/assoc_array.c in the Linux kernel before 4.5.3 does not check whether a slot is a leaf, which allows local users to obtain sensitive information from kernel memory or cause a denial of service (invalid pointer dereference and out-of-bounds read) via an application that uses associative-array data structures, as demonstrated by the keyutils test suite.
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MITRE
Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: google_android
Published: 2016-11-16T04:49:00
Updated: 2024-08-06T02:13:20.798Z
Reserved: 2016-09-09T00:00:00
Link: CVE-2016-7914
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NVD
Status : Modified
Published: 2016-11-16T05:59:08.970
Modified: 2018-01-05T02:31:15.917
Link: CVE-2016-7914
Redhat