CVE-2016-6156 Race condition in n/a

What is CVE-2016-6156?

CVE-2016-6156 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Linux kernel, published on 6 Aug 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 ec_device_ioctl_xcmd function in drivers/platform/chrome/cros_ec_dev.c in the Linux kernel before 4.7 allows local users to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds array access) by changing a certain size value, aka a "double fetch" vulnerability.

Weakness: CWE-362

Which versions are affected by CVE-2016-6156?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Linux kernel.

How do I fix CVE-2016-6156?

Upgrade to a fixed version.

Is CVE-2016-6156 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2016-6156 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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• CVE-2022-0185 Linux Kernel Heap-Based Buffer Overflow Exploited High 8.4
• CVE-2013-2094 Linux Kernel Privilege Escalation Exploited High 8.4
• CVE-2026-53362 Linux Kernel Unspecified Exploited High 7.8

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Sources

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

Also known as DEBIAN-CVE-2016-6156, GHSA-v2x3-97gq-36gp, UBUNTU-CVE-2016-6156.