CVE-2016-10905

Severity: high (CVSS 7.8 v3.1)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.6% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2019-08-19 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-416

Description

An issue was discovered in fs/gfs2/rgrp.c in the Linux kernel before 4.8. A use-after-free is caused by the functions gfs2_clear_rgrpd and read_rindex_entry.

Affected products

Linux kernel: before 4.8; from 3.4 before 3.16.74; from 3.17 before 4.4.191; from 4.5 before 4.8 — fixed in 3.16.74, 4.4.191, 4.8

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: Linux kernel 3.16.74, 4.4.191, 4.8. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/154951/Kernel-Live-Patch-Security-Notice-LSN-0058-1.html
http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/155212/Slackware-Security-Advisory-Slackware-14.2-kernel-Updates.html
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=36e4ad0316c017d5b271378ed9a1c9a4b77fab5f
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/09/msg00025.html
https://seclists.org/bugtraq/2019/Nov/11
https://support.f5.com/csp/article/K31332013
https://support.f5.com/csp/article/K31332013?utm_source=f5support&amp%3Butm_medium=RSS
https://usn.ubuntu.com/4145-1/
http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/154951/Kernel-Live-Patch-Security-Notice-LSN-0058-1.html
http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/155212/Slackware-Security-Advisory-Slackware-14.2-kernel-Updates.html
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=36e4ad0316c017d5b271378ed9a1c9a4b77fab5f
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/09/msg00025.html

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