Security Advisory

CVE-2016-9120

CVE vulnerability detail — eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2016-12-08 21:00:00
Last updated 2024-08-06 02:42:10
Assigner google_android
State PUBLISHED

Description

Race condition in the ion_ioctl function in drivers/staging/android/ion/ion.c in the Linux kernel before 4.6 allows local users to gain privileges or cause a denial of service (use-after-free) by calling ION_IOC_FREE on two CPUs at the same time.