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CVE-2016-6480

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.1 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: 2016-08-06 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-362

Description

Race condition in the ioctl_send_fib function in drivers/scsi/aacraid/commctrl.c in the Linux kernel through 4.7 allows local users to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds access or system crash) by changing a certain size value, aka a "double fetch" vulnerability.

Affected products

• Linux kernel: through 4.7

References

• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-08/msg00048.html
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-08/msg00049.html
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-08/msg00050.html
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-08/msg00051.html
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-08/msg00052.html
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-08/msg00053.html
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-08/msg00054.html
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-09/msg00001.html
• http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2574.html
• http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2584.html
• http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017-0817.html
• http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/539074/30/0/threaded

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