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Tracker / CVE-2016-7911

CVE-2016-7911

High 7.8

Race condition in the get_task_ioprio function in block/ioprio.c in the Linux kernel before 4.6.6 allows local users to gain privileges or cause a denial of service (use-after-free) via a crafted ioprio_get system call.

Affected products and versions

linux linux_kernel · … → 3.2.85
linux linux_kernel · 3.11 → 3.12.70
linux linux_kernel · 3.13 → 3.16.37
linux linux_kernel · 3.17 → 3.18.38
linux linux_kernel · 3.19 → 4.1.29
linux linux_kernel · 3.3 → 3.10.107
linux linux_kernel · 4.2 → 4.4.17
linux linux_kernel · 4.5 → 4.6.6

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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