CVE-2016-9754

The ringbufferresize function in kernel/trace/ringbuffer.c in the profiling subsystem in the Linux kernel before 4.6.1 mishandles certain integer calculations, which allows local users to gain privileges by writing to the /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/buffersize_kb file.

References

Affected packages

Git /

Affected ranges

Database specific

source

"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2016-9754.json"

unresolved_ranges

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    {
        "events": [
            {
                "introduced": "3.5"
            },
            {
                "fixed": "3.10.102"
            }
        ]
    },
    {
        "events": [
            {
                "introduced": "3.11"
            },
            {
                "fixed": "3.12.61"
            }
        ]
    },
    {
        "events": [
            {
                "introduced": "3.13"
            },
            {
                "fixed": "3.14.71"
            }
        ]
    },
    {
        "events": [
            {
                "introduced": "3.15"
            },
            {
                "fixed": "3.16.37"
            }
        ]
    },
    {
        "events": [
            {
                "introduced": "3.17"
            },
            {
                "fixed": "3.18.35"
            }
        ]
    },
    {
        "events": [
            {
                "introduced": "3.19"
            },
            {
                "fixed": "4.1.26"
            }
        ]
    },
    {
        "events": [
            {
                "introduced": "4.2"
            },
            {
                "fixed": "4.4.12"
            }
        ]
    },
    {
        "events": [
            {
                "introduced": "4.5"
            },
            {
                "fixed": "4.5.6"
            }
        ]
    },
    {
        "events": [
            {
                "introduced": "0"
            },
            {
                "last_affected": "4.6"
            }
        ]
    }
]