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Tracker / CVE-2016-7910

CVE-2016-7910

High 7.8

Use-after-free vulnerability in the disk_seqf_stop function in block/genhd.c in the Linux kernel before 4.7.1 allows local users to gain privileges by leveraging the execution of a certain stop operation even if the corresponding start operation had failed.

Affected products and versions

linux linux_kernel · … → 3.2.84
linux linux_kernel · 3.11 → 3.12.63
linux linux_kernel · 3.13 → 3.14.76
linux linux_kernel · 3.15 → 3.16.39
linux linux_kernel · 3.17 → 3.18.40
linux linux_kernel · 3.19 → 4.1.31
linux linux_kernel · 3.3 → 3.10.103
linux linux_kernel · 4.2 → 4.4.18
linux linux_kernel · 4.5 → 4.6.7
linux linux_kernel · 4.7 → 4.7.1

Analysis

This page is not indexable yet.Until it carries original analysis — what it actually exposes, how to check in two minutes whether a system was touched, what to do if it was — the page stays noindex. The database decides that, not the template.

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