CVE-2016-7425 Memory corruption in n/a

What is CVE-2016-7425?

CVE-2016-7425 is a high-severity memory corruption vulnerability in Canonical Ubuntu Linux, published on 16 Oct 2016. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

The arcmsr_iop_message_xfer function in drivers/scsi/arcmsr/arcmsr_hba.c in the Linux kernel through 4.8.2 does not restrict a certain length field, which allows local users to gain privileges or cause a denial of service (heap-based buffer overflow) via an ARCMSR_MESSAGE_WRITE_WQBUFFER control code.

Weakness: CWE-119

Which versions are affected by CVE-2016-7425?

It affects 2 products.

Products include Canonical Ubuntu Linux, Linux kernel.

How do I fix CVE-2016-7425?

Apply the vendor's patch.

Upgrade to the fixed version. Memory-safe languages, compiler hardening and fuzzing prevent most new cases. More about Memory corruption.

Is CVE-2016-7425 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2016-7425 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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• CVE-2019-16928 Exim Out-of-bounds Write Exploited Critical 9.8
• CVE-2018-6789 Exim Buffer Overflow Exploited Critical 9.8
• CVE-2015-2590 Oracle Java SE and Java SE Embedded Remote Code Execution Exploited Critical 9.8

All Canonical Ubuntu Linux vulnerabilities

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as DEBIAN-CVE-2016-7425, GHSA-268m-95p3-rgg5, UBUNTU-CVE-2016-7425.