CVE-2016-6156 Information

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 Vector

CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Reference

http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=096cdc6f52225835ff503f987a0d68ef770bb78e http://seclists.org/bugtraq/2016/Jul/20 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/91553 https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=120131 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1353490 https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/096cdc6f52225835ff503f987a0d68ef770bb78e

Attack Complexity

HIGH

Privileges Required

NONE

User Interaction Required

NONE

Scope

NONE

Confidentiality Impact

UNCHANGED

Integrity Impact

NONE

Availability Impact

NONE

Base Score

HIGH

Base Severity

5.1