CVE-2016-10905 Use after free in n/a

What is CVE-2016-10905?

CVE-2016-10905 is a high-severity use after free vulnerability in Linux kernel, published on 19 Aug 2019. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

An issue was discovered in fs/gfs2/rgrp.c in the Linux kernel before 4.8. A use-after-free is caused by the functions gfs2_clear_rgrpd and read_rindex_entry.

Weakness: CWE-416

Which versions are affected by CVE-2016-10905?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Linux kernel.

How do I fix CVE-2016-10905?

Apply the vendor's patch.

Upgrade to the fixed version. These bugs are found with fuzzing and sanitisers and avoided by memory-safe languages. More about Use after free.

Is CVE-2016-10905 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2016-10905 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-2016-10905, GHSA-8gm5-39w5-qgqw, UBUNTU-CVE-2016-10905.