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Tracker / CVE-2016-4565

CVE-2016-4565

High 7.8

The InfiniBand (aka IB) stack in the Linux kernel before 4.5.3 incorrectly relies on the write system call, which allows local users to cause a denial of service (kernel memory write operation) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a uAPI interface.

Affected products and versions

canonical ubuntu_linux
debian debian_linux
linux linux_kernel · … → 3.2.81
linux linux_kernel · 3.11 → 3.12.61
linux linux_kernel · 3.13 → 3.14.76
linux linux_kernel · 3.15 → 3.16.36
linux linux_kernel · 3.17 → 3.18.34
linux linux_kernel · 3.19 → 4.1.25
linux linux_kernel · 3.3 → 3.10.103
linux linux_kernel · 4.2 → 4.4.9
linux linux_kernel · 4.5 → 4.5.3

Analysis

This page is not indexable yet.Until it carries original analysis — what it actually exposes, how to check in two minutes whether a system was touched, what to do if it was — the page stays noindex. The database decides that, not the template.

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