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CVE-2016-5728
Race condition in the vop_ioctl function in drivers/misc/mic/vop/vop_vringh.c in the MIC VOP driver in the Linux kernel before 4.6.1…
Medium6.3EPSS 0.40%
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- mitre
Description
Race condition in the vop_ioctl function in drivers/misc/mic/vop/vop_vringh.c in the MIC VOP driver in the Linux kernel before 4.6.1 allows local users to obtain sensitive information from kernel memory or cause a denial of service (memory corruption and system crash) by changing a certain header, aka a "double fetch" vulnerability.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.0 | Medium6.3 | CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:H |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 0.40% · top 65% of all CVEs (2 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 6.3.
Weakness
Affected products
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- affected n/a
References (12)
- USN-3070-1 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTUx_transferred
- http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v4.x/ChangeLog-4.6.1 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=116651 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- USN-3070-3 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTUx_transferred
- https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/9bf292bfca94694a721449e3fd752493856710f6 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- USN-3070-2 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTUx_transferred
- http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=9bf292bfca94694a721449e3fd752493856710f6 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- USN-3071-1 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTUx_transferred
- DSA-3616 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIANx_transferred
- USN-3070-4 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTUx_transferred
- 20160630 [CVE-2016-5728] Double-Fetch Vulnerability in Linux-4.5/drivers/misc/mic/host/mic_virtio.c (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQx_transferred
- USN-3071-2 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTUx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
Record last updated .