CVE - CVE-2016-6156

CVE-ID
CVE-2016-6156	Learn more at National Vulnerability Database (NVD) • CVSS Severity Rating • Fix Information • Vulnerable Software Versions • SCAP Mappings • CPE Information
Description
Race condition in the ec_device_ioctl_xcmd function in drivers/platform/chrome/cros_ec_dev.c in the Linux kernel before 4.7 allows local users to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds array access) by changing a certain size value, aka a "double fetch" vulnerability.
References
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BID:91553 URL:http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/91553 BUGTRAQ:20160704 [CVE-2016-6156] Double-Fetch Vulnerability in Linux-4.6/drivers/platform/chrome/cros_ec_dev.c URL:http://seclists.org/bugtraq/2016/Jul/20 CONFIRM:http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=096cdc6f52225835ff503f987a0d68ef770bb78e CONFIRM:https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1353490 CONFIRM:https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/096cdc6f52225835ff503f987a0d68ef770bb78e MISC:https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=120131
Assigning CNA
MITRE Corporation
Date Record Created
20160701	Disclaimer: The record creation date may reflect when the CVE ID was allocated or reserved, and does not necessarily indicate when this vulnerability was discovered, shared with the affected vendor, publicly disclosed, or updated in CVE.
Phase (Legacy)
Assigned (20160701)
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