CVE-2016-0774

Related Vulnerabilities: CVE-2016-0774  

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.

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.

CVSS v2 metrics

Base Score 5.4
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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Red Hat Security Errata

Platform Errata Release Date
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

Affected Packages State

Platform Package State
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

Acknowledgements

The security impact of this issue was discovered by Red Hat.