NVD
- Id
- 21272
- Name
- CVE-2016-6516
- Description
- Race condition in the ioctl_file_dedupe_range function in fs/ioctl.c in the Linux kernel through 4.7 allows local users to cause a denial of service (heap-based buffer overflow) or possibly gain privileges by changing a certain count value, aka a "double fetch" vulnerability.
- Reject
- CVSS Version
- 2
- CVSS Score
- 4.4
- Severity
- Medium
- CVSS Base Score
- 4.4
- CVSS Impact Subscore
- 6.4
- CVSS Exploit Subscore
- 3.4
- CVSS Vector
- (AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
- Pub Date
- 2017-01-19
- Published
- 2016-08-06
- Modified Date
- 2016-11-28
- Seq
- 2016-6516