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CVE-2016-6480

Date: August 6, 2016

Race condition in the ioctl_send_fib function in drivers/scsi/aacraid/commctrl.c in the Linux kernel through 4.7 allows local users to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds access or system crash) by changing a certain size value, aka a "double fetch" vulnerability.

Language: C

Severity Score

5.1

Related Resources (19)

Url: https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-6480

Url: http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-08/msg00054.html

Url: http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-08/msg00049.html

Url: http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-08/msg00050.html

Url: https://people.canonical.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/CVE-2016-6480

Url: http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-08/msg00053.html

Url: http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/92214

Url: http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-08/msg00051.html

Url: http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2584.html

Url: http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017-0817.html

Url: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-6480

Url: http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-08/msg00048.html

Url: http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/539074/30/0/threaded

Url: http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-08/msg00052.html

Url: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1362466

Url: http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2574.html

Url: http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-09/msg00001.html

Url: https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2016-6480

Url: https://www.mend.io/vulnerability-database/CVE-2016-6480

Severity Score

5.1

Weakness Type (CWE)

Concurrent Execution using Shared Resource with Improper Synchronization ('Race Condition')

CWE-362

CVSS v3.1

Base Score:	5.1
Attack Vector (AV):	LOCAL
Attack Complexity (AC):	HIGH
Privileges Required (PR):	NONE
User Interaction (UI):	NONE
Scope (S):	UNCHANGED
Confidentiality (C):	NONE
Integrity (I):	NONE
Availability (A):	HIGH

CVSS v2

Base Score:	4.7
Access Vector (AV):	LOCAL
Access Complexity (AC):	MEDIUM
Authentication (AU):	NONE
Confidentiality (C):	NONE
Integrity (I):	NONE
Availability (A):	COMPLETE
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CVE-2016-6480

Date: August 6, 2016

Language: C

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Related Resources (19)

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CVSS v3.1

CVSS v2

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