CVE-2016-6187

Publication date

2016-08-06 20:00:00

Family

mitre

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.