CVE-2016-6516

Publication date

2016-08-06 20:00:00

Family

mitre

State

PUBLISHED

Description

Race condition in the ioctl_file_dedupe_range function in fs/ioctl.c in the Linux kernel through 4.7 allows local users to cause a denial of service (heap-based buffer overflow) or possibly gain privileges by changing a certain count value, aka a "double fetch" vulnerability.