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CVE-2016-7913

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.8 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 2.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2016-11-16 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-416

Description

The xc2028_set_config function in drivers/media/tuners/tuner-xc2028.c in the Linux kernel before 4.6 allows local users to gain privileges or cause a denial of service (use-after-free) via vectors involving omission of the firmware name from a certain data structure.

Affected products

• Canonical Ubuntu Linux: 12.04, 14.04
• Linux kernel: before 3.10.106; from 3.11 before 3.12.70; from 3.13 before 3.18.51; from 3.19 before 4.1.41; from 4.2 before 4.4.65; from 4.5 before 4.6 — fixed in 3.10.106, 3.12.70, 3.18.51, 4.1.41, 4.4.65, 4.6

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: Linux kernel 3.10.106, 3.12.70, 3.18.51, 4.1.41. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=8dfbcc4351a0b6d2f2d77f367552f48ffefafe18
• http://source.android.com/security/bulletin/2016-11-01.html
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/94201
• https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:0676
• https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:1062
• https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:1170
• https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:1190
• https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/8dfbcc4351a0b6d2f2d77f367552f48ffefafe18
• https://usn.ubuntu.com/3798-1/
• https://usn.ubuntu.com/3798-2/
• http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=8dfbcc4351a0b6d2f2d77f367552f48ffefafe18
• http://source.android.com/security/bulletin/2016-11-01.html

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