CVE-2016-6480 Information

Description

Race condition in the ioctl_send_fib function in drivers/scsi/aacraid/commctrl.c in the Linux kernel through 4.7 allows local users to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds access or system crash) 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://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-08/msg00048.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-08/msg00049.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-08/msg00050.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-08/msg00051.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-08/msg00052.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-08/msg00053.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-08/msg00054.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-09/msg00001.html http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2574.html http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2584.html http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017-0817.html http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/539074/30/0/threaded http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/92214 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1362466

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