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Tracker / CVE-2016-9120

CVE-2016-9120

High 7.8

Race condition in the ion_ioctl function in drivers/staging/android/ion/ion.c in the Linux kernel before 4.6 allows local users to gain privileges or cause a denial of service (use-after-free) by calling ION_IOC_FREE on two CPUs at the same time.

Affected products and versions

linux linux_kernel · 3.14 → 3.16.40
linux linux_kernel · 3.17 → 3.18.51
linux linux_kernel · 3.19 → 4.1.41
linux linux_kernel · 4.2 → 4.4.65
linux linux_kernel · 4.5 → 4.6

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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