It was found that the fix for CVE-2015-1805 incorrectly kept buffer offset and buffer length in sync on a failed atomic read, potentially resulting in a pipe buffer state corruption. A local, unprivileged user could use this flaw to crash the system or leak kernel memory to user space.
Find out more about CVE-2016-0774 from the MITRE CVE dictionary dictionary and NIST NVD.
Base Score | 5.4 |
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Base Metrics | AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:C |
Access Vector | Local |
Access Complexity | Medium |
Authentication | None |
Confidentiality Impact | Partial |
Integrity Impact | None |
Availability Impact | Complete |
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Platform | Errata | Release Date |
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux Extended Update Support 7.1 (kernel) | RHSA-2016:0103 | 2016-02-02 |
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Extended Update Support 6.6 (kernel) | RHSA-2016:0617 | 2016-04-12 |
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 (kernel) | RHSA-2016:0494 | 2016-03-22 |
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 (kernel) | RHSA-2015:2152 | 2015-11-19 |
Platform | Package | State |
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Red Hat Enterprise MRG 2 | kernel | Not affected |
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 | kernel-rt | Not affected |
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 | kernel | Will not fix |