NVD
- Id
- 21960
- Name
- CVE-2016-7916
- Description
- Race condition in the environ_read function in fs/proc/base.c in the Linux kernel before 4.5.4 allows local users to obtain sensitive information from kernel memory by reading a /proc/*/environ file during a process-setup time interval in which environment-variable copying is incomplete.
- Reject
- CVSS Version
- 2
- CVSS Score
- 4.7
- Severity
- Medium
- CVSS Base Score
- 4.7
- CVSS Impact Subscore
- 6.9
- CVSS Exploit Subscore
- 3.4
- CVSS Vector
- (AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:N/A:N)
- Pub Date
- 2017-01-19
- Published
- 2016-11-16
- Modified Date
- 2017-01-17
- Seq
- 2016-7916