What’s Vulnerable › Vulnerabilities

CVE-2016-10741

• Severity: medium (CVSS 4.7 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2019-02-01 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-362

Description

In the Linux kernel before 4.9.3, fs/xfs/xfs_aops.c allows local users to cause a denial of service (system crash) because there is a race condition between direct and memory-mapped I/O (associated with a hole) that is handled with BUG_ON instead of an I/O failure.

Affected products

• Debian Linux: 8.0
• Linux kernel: before 4.9.3 — fixed in 4.9.3

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: Linux kernel 4.9.3. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=04197b341f23b908193308b8d63d17ff23232598
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/106822
• https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1124010
• https://cdn.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v4.x/ChangeLog-4.9.3
• https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/04197b341f23b908193308b8d63d17ff23232598
• https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/03/msg00034.html
• https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/04/msg00004.html
• http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=04197b341f23b908193308b8d63d17ff23232598
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/106822
• https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1124010
• https://cdn.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v4.x/ChangeLog-4.9.3
• https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/04197b341f23b908193308b8d63d17ff23232598

Get alerted when CVE-2016-10741 or the next vulnerability affects your stack