CVE-2016-0723

Published Feb 8, 2016

Last updated 8 years ago

Overview

Description
Race condition in the tty_ioctl function in drivers/tty/tty_io.c in the Linux kernel through 4.4.1 allows local users to obtain sensitive information from kernel memory or cause a denial of service (use-after-free and system crash) by making a TIOCGETD ioctl call during processing of a TIOCSETD ioctl call.
Source
secalert@redhat.com
NVD status
Modified

Risk scores

CVSS 3.0

Type
Primary
Base score
6.8
Impact score
4.2
Exploitability score
2.5
Vector string
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:H
Severity
MEDIUM

CVSS 2.0

Type
Primary
Base score
5.6
Impact score
7.8
Exploitability score
3.9
Vector string
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:C

Weaknesses

nvd@nist.gov
CWE-200

Social media

Hype score
Not currently trending

Evaluator

Comment
<a href="http://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/416.html">CWE-416: Use After Free</a>
Impact
-
Solution
-

Configurations

References