CVE-2016-4470

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Source
https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2016-4470
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2016-4470.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2016-4470
Downstream
Related
Published
2016-06-27T10:59:08.720Z
Modified
2026-03-10T14:04:37.067175Z
Severity
  • 5.5 (Medium) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H CVSS Calculator
Summary
[none]
Details

The keyrejectand_link function in security/keys/key.c in the Linux kernel through 4.6.3 does not ensure that a certain data structure is initialized, which allows local users to cause a denial of service (system crash) via vectors involving a crafted keyctl request2 command.

References

Affected packages

Git /

Affected ranges

Database specific

source 
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