Security Advisory

CVE-2016-9754

CVE vulnerability detail - eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2017-01-05 11:00:00

Last updated 2024-08-06 02:59:03

Assigner google_android

CVSS score not scored

State PUBLISHED

Description

The ring_buffer_resize function in kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c in the profiling subsystem in the Linux kernel before 4.6.1 mishandles certain integer calculations, which allows local users to gain privileges by writing to the /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/buffer_size_kb file.

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