CVE-2016-0723

medium
Published 2016-02-08 ยท Modified 2026-05-06
CVSS v3
6.8
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:H
CVSS v4 NEW
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not yet in upstream
VIR risk
6.8

Description

Race condition in the tty_ioctl function in drivers/tty/tty_io.c in the Linux kernel through 4.4.1 allows local users to obtain sensitive information from kernel memory or cause a denial of service (use-after-free and system crash) by making a TIOCGETD ioctl call during processing of a TIOCSETD ioctl call.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
67%
Patch ETA
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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

The vendor-content worker queues fetches as references arrive (check back in a few minutes). Or โ€” if you've already worked around this in production โ€” publish your fix to the community-verified tier.

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OS impact

linux Linux kernel Affected 1 release
VersionStatusFixed in
โ€” Affected โ€”
suse SUSE Affected 1 release
VersionStatusFixed in
โ€” Affected โ€”
debian Debian Fixed 5 releases
VersionStatusFixed in
trixie Fixed 4.3.3-6
sid Fixed 4.3.3-6
forky Fixed 4.3.3-6
bullseye Fixed 4.3.3-6
bookworm Fixed 4.3.3-6

References

CWEs

CWE-200 CWE-362

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.