CVE-2016-6156

Advisory lineage Upstream: 0 Downstream: 6
Modified
Published: 06 Aug 2016, 20:00
Last modified:06 Aug 2024, 01:22

Vulnerability Summary

Overall Risk (default)
low
20/100
CVSS Score
5.1 MEDIUM
v3.0 (nvd)
EPSS Score
0.04% LOW
0% probability 0.00%
KEV
Not listed
Ransomware
No reports
Public exploits
None found
Dark Web
Not detected

Timeline

06 Aug 2016, 20:00
Published
Vulnerability first disclosed
06 Aug 2024, 01:22
Last Modified
Vulnerability information updated

Description

Race condition in the ec_device_ioctl_xcmd function in drivers/platform/chrome/cros_ec_dev.c in the Linux kernel before 4.7 allows local users to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds array access) by changing a certain size value, aka a "double fetch" vulnerability.

CVSS Metrics

  • v3.0•MEDIUM•Score: 5.1CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
  • v2.0•LOW•Score: 1.9AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

EPSS Trends

Current EPSS score: 0.04%• Percentile: 13%

Techniques & Countermeasures

  • CWE-362•Concurrent Execution using Shared Resource with Improper Synchronization ('Race Condition')

    The product contains a concurrent code sequence that requires temporary, exclusive access to a shared resource, but a timing window exists in which the shared resource can be modified by another code sequence operating concurrently.

Affected Systems

  • linux•linux_kernel

    ≤ 4.6.6

References (6)