CVE-2016-5728

Severity CVSS v4.0:

Pending analysis

Type:

CWE-119 Buffer Errors

Publication date:

27/06/2016

Last modified:

12/04/2025

Description

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.

Impact

Vector 3.x

CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:H CVSS v3.1 Severity and Metrics:

Base Score: 6.30 MEDIUM
Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:H

Attack Vector (AV): Local
Attack Complexity (AC): High
Privileges Required (PR): Low
User Interaction (UI): None
Scope (S): Unchanged
Confidentiality (C): High
Integrity (I): None
Availability (A): High

Base Score 3.x

6.30

Severity 3.x

MEDIUM

Vector 2.0

AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:C CVSS v2.0 Severity and Metrics:

Base Score: 5.40 MEDIUM
Vector: AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:C

Attack Vector (AV): Local
Attack Complexity (AC): Medium
Authentication (Au): None
Confidentiality (C): Physical
Integrity (I): None
Availability (A): Complete