CVE-2016-5828

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Source
https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2016-5828
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2016-5828.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2016-5828
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Published
2016-06-27T10:59:13.160Z
Modified
2026-03-15T21:50:52.931669Z
Severity
  • 7.8 (High) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H CVSS Calculator
Summary
[none]
Details

The start_thread function in arch/powerpc/kernel/process.c in the Linux kernel through 4.6.3 on powerpc platforms mishandles transactional state, which allows local users to cause a denial of service (invalid process state or TM Bad Thing exception, and system crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact by starting and suspending a transaction before an exec system call.

References

Affected packages

Git /

Affected ranges

Database specific

unresolved_ranges 
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    {
        "events": [
            {
                "introduced": "3.9"
            },
            {
                "fixed": "3.10.103"
            }
        ]
    },
    {
        "events": [
            {
                "introduced": "3.11"
            },
            {
                "fixed": "3.14.74"
            }
        ]
    },
    {
        "events": [
            {
                "introduced": "3.15"
            },
            {
                "fixed": "3.16.37"
            }
        ]
    },
    {
        "events": [
            {
                "introduced": "3.17"
            },
            {
                "fixed": "3.18.37"
            }
        ]
    },
    {
        "events": [
            {
                "introduced": "3.19"
            },
            {
                "fixed": "4.1.28"
            }
        ]
    },
    {
        "events": [
            {
                "introduced": "4.2"
            },
            {
                "fixed": "4.4.16"
            }
        ]
    },
    {
        "events": [
            {
                "introduced": "4.6"
            },
            {
                "fixed": "4.6.5"
            }
        ]
    },
    {
        "events": [
            {
                "introduced": "0"
            },
            {
                "last_affected": "12-sp1"
            }
        ]
    },
    {
        "events": [
            {
                "introduced": "0"
            },
            {
                "last_affected": "8.0"
            }
        ]
    },
    {
        "events": [
            {
                "introduced": "0"
            },
            {
                "last_affected": "12.04"
            }
        ]
    },
    {
        "events": [
            {
                "introduced": "0"
            },
            {
                "last_affected": "14.04"
            }
        ]
    },
    {
        "events": [
            {
                "introduced": "0"
            },
            {
                "last_affected": "16.04"
            }
        ]
    }
]
source 
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