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CVE-2016-10906
- Severity: high (CVSS 7.0 v3.0)
- Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
- EPSS: 0.4% 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-362
Description
An issue was discovered in drivers/net/ethernet/arc/emac_main.c in the Linux kernel before 4.5. A use-after-free is caused by a race condition between the functions arc_emac_tx and arc_emac_tx_clean.
Affected products
- Linux kernel: before 4.5 — fixed in 4.5
How to fix
Upgrade to a fixed version: Linux kernel 4.5. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.
References
- 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=c278c253f3d992c6994d08aa0efb2b6806ca396f
- https://seclists.org/bugtraq/2019/Nov/11
- https://support.f5.com/csp/article/K01993501?utm_source=f5support&%3Butm_medium=RSS
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/4163-1/
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/4163-2/
- 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=c278c253f3d992c6994d08aa0efb2b6806ca396f
- https://seclists.org/bugtraq/2019/Nov/11
- https://support.f5.com/csp/article/K01993501?utm_source=f5support&%3Butm_medium=RSS
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/4163-1/
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/4163-2/
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