CVE-2016-6130 Race condition in n/a

What is CVE-2016-6130?

CVE-2016-6130 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Debian Debian Linux, published on 3 Jul 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 sclp_ctl_ioctl_sccb function in drivers/s390/char/sclp_ctl.c in the Linux kernel before 4.6 allows local users to obtain sensitive information from kernel memory by changing a certain length value, aka a "double fetch" vulnerability.

Weakness: CWE-362

Which versions are affected by CVE-2016-6130?

It affects 2 products.

Products include Debian Debian Linux, Linux kernel.

How do I fix CVE-2016-6130?

Apply the vendor's patch.

Is CVE-2016-6130 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2016-6130 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-2016-6130, GHSA-fr42-mwm8-m9x7, UBUNTU-CVE-2016-6130.