Security Advisory

CVE-2016-6187

CVE vulnerability detail - eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2016-08-06 20:00:00
Last updated 2024-08-06 01:22:20
Assigner mitre
CVSS score not scored
State PUBLISHED

Description

The apparmor_setprocattr function in security/apparmor/lsm.c in the Linux kernel before 4.6.5 does not validate the buffer size, which allows local users to gain privileges by triggering an AppArmor setprocattr hook.