Published: 08/02/2016 Updated: 06/12/2016

CVSS v2 Base Score: 5.6 | Impact Score: 7.8 | Exploitability Score: 3.9

CVSS v3 Base Score: 6.8 | Impact Score: 4.2 | Exploitability Score: 2.5

VMScore: 499

Vector: AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:C

Race condition in the tty_ioctl function in drivers/tty/tty_io.c in the Linux kernel up to and including 4.4.1 allows local users to obtain sensitive information from kernel memory or cause a denial of service (use-after-free and system crash) by making a TIOCGETD ioctl call during processing of a TIOCSETD ioctl call.

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Several vulnerabilities have been discovered in the Linux kernel that may lead to a privilege escalation or denial-of-service CVE-2013-4312 Tetsuo Handa discovered that it is possible for a process to open far more files than the process' limit leading to denial-of-service conditions CVE-2015-7566 Ralf Spenneberg of OpenSource Se ...

The Linux kernel before 441 allows local users to bypass file-descriptor limits and cause a denial of service (memory consumption) by sending each descriptor over a UNIX socket before closing it, related to net/unix/af_unixc and net/unix/garbagec (CVE-2013-4312) A race condition in the tty_ioctl function in drivers/tty/tty_ioc in the Linux ke ...

A use-after-free flaw was discovered in the Linux kernel's tty subsystem, which allows for the disclosure of uncontrolled memory location and possible kernel panic The information leak is caused by a race condition when attempting to set and read the tty line discipline A local attacker could use the TIOCSETD (via tty_set_ldisc ) to switch to a ...

Several security issues were fixed in the kernel ...

USN 2948-1 introduced a regression in the Ubuntu 1410 Linux kernel backported to Ubuntu 1404 LTS ...

Several security issues were fixed in the kernel ...

CWE-200 CWE-362 NVD-CWE-Other http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=5c17c861a357e9458001f021a7afa7aab9937439 https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/5c17c861a357e9458001f021a7afa7aab9937439 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1296253 https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2016-0723 http://source.android.com/security/bulletin/2016-07-01.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-07/msg00005.html http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/linuxbulletinjul2016-3090544.html http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/ovmbulletinoct2016-3090547.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-08/msg00038.html http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/82950 http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3503 http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-04/msg00015.html http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2967-1 http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2967-2 http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2930-1 http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2929-1 http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2932-1 http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2948-2 http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1035695 http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2930-2 http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2929-2 http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2930-3 http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-03/msg00094.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-04/msg00045.html http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2948-1 http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2016-February/176484.html http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3448 http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2016-February/176464.html https://support.f5.com/csp/article/K43650115 https://nvd.nist.gov https://www.debian.org/security/./dsa-3448 https://usn.ubuntu.com/2967-1/

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