CVE-2016-3070
- Source
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-3070
- Import Source
- https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2016-3070.json
- JSON Data
- https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2016-3070
- Downstream
- Related
- Published
- 2016-08-06T20:59:00Z
- Modified
- 2025-08-09T19:01:28Z
- Severity
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- 7.8 (High) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H CVSS Calculator
- Summary
- [none]
- Details
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The tracewritebackdirty_page implementation in include/trace/events/writeback.h in the Linux kernel before 4.4 improperly interacts with mm/migrate.c, which allows local users to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and system crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact by triggering a certain page move.
- References
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- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2574.html
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2584.html
- http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3607
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-3034-1
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-3034-2
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-3035-1
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-3035-2
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-3035-3
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-3036-1
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-3037-1
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2016-3070
- http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=42cb14b110a5698ccf26ce59c4441722605a3743
- https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/42cb14b110a5698ccf26ce59c4441722605a3743
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1308846
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/90518