CVE-2016-10741 Race condition in n/a

What is CVE-2016-10741?

CVE-2016-10741 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Debian Debian Linux, published on 1 Feb 2019. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

In the Linux kernel before 4.9.3, fs/xfs/xfs_aops.c allows local users to cause a denial of service (system crash) because there is a race condition between direct and memory-mapped I/O (associated with a hole) that is handled with BUG_ON instead of an I/O failure.

Weakness: CWE-362

Which versions are affected by CVE-2016-10741?

It affects 2 products.

Products include Debian Debian Linux, Linux kernel.

How do I fix CVE-2016-10741?

Apply the vendor's patch.

Is CVE-2016-10741 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2016-10741 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as DEBIAN-CVE-2016-10741, GHSA-vwf4-9qqv-87g9, UBUNTU-CVE-2016-10741.