PoC Index

CVE-2016-6516

HIGH 7.4EPSS 0.9%

Race condition in the ioctl_file_dedupe_range function in fs/ioctl.c in the Linux kernel through 4.7 allows local users to cause a denial of service (heap-based buffer overflow) or possibly gain privileges by changing a certain count value, aka a "double fetch" vulnerability.

CVSS v3.0
7.4 HIGHCVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS v2.0
4.4 MEDIUMAV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
EPSS
0.95% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, 59th percentile
Published
2016-08-06
Updated
2024-08-06

Proof-of-concept exploits (1)

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