CVE-2016-5728 Race condition in n/a

What is CVE-2016-5728?

CVE-2016-5728 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Debian Debian Linux, published on 27 Jun 2016. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

Race condition in the vop_ioctl function in drivers/misc/mic/vop/vop_vringh.c in the MIC VOP driver in the Linux kernel before 4.6.1 allows local users to obtain sensitive information from kernel memory or cause a denial of service (memory corruption and system crash) by changing a certain header, aka a "double fetch" vulnerability.

Weakness: CWE-119

Which versions are affected by CVE-2016-5728?

It affects 2 products.

Products include Debian Debian Linux, Linux kernel.

How do I fix CVE-2016-5728?

Apply the vendor's patch.

Is CVE-2016-5728 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2016-5728 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
• How this page is made

Also known as DEBIAN-CVE-2016-5728, GHSA-h9vp-p9jj-8mmf, UBUNTU-CVE-2016-5728.