CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2016-9120

Published: Dec 08, 2016 | Modified: Jan 19, 2023
CVSS 3.x
7.8
HIGH
Source:
NVD
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS 2.x
9.3 HIGH
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
Ubuntu

Race condition in the ion_ioctl function in drivers/staging/android/ion/ion.c in the Linux kernel before 4.6 allows local users to gain privileges or cause a denial of service (use-after-free) by calling ION_IOC_FREE on two CPUs at the same time.

Affected Software

Name Vendor Start Version End Version
Linux_kernel Linux 3.14 (including) 3.16.40 (excluding)
Linux_kernel Linux 3.17 (including) 3.18.51 (excluding)
Linux_kernel Linux 3.19 (including) 4.1.41 (excluding)
Linux_kernel Linux 4.2 (including) 4.4.65 (excluding)
Linux_kernel Linux 4.5 (including) 4.6 (excluding)

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