CVE-2016-6130
medium
CVSS v3
4.7
CVSS v4 NEW
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VIR risk
4.7
Description
Race condition in the sclp_ctl_ioctl_sccb function in drivers/s390/char/sclp_ctl.c in the Linux kernel before 4.6 allows local users to obtain sensitive information from kernel memory by changing a certain length value, aka a "double fetch" vulnerability.
Predictions
Exploit likelihood
47%
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 — if you've already worked around this in production — publish your fix to the community-verified tier.
✚ Propose a mitigation on Community → Mitigations published via the community go through AI scoring + 2 human reviewers + 7-day silent objection window before landing here withsource_tier=community-verified.
OS impact
Linux kernel Affected 1 release
| Version | Status | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|
| — | Affected | — |
SUSE Affected 1 release
| Version | Status | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|
| — | Affected | — |
Debian Mixed 6 releases
| Version | Status | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|
| trixie | Fixed | 4.6.1-1 |
| sid | Fixed | 4.6.1-1 |
| forky | Fixed | 4.6.1-1 |
| bullseye | Fixed | 4.6.1-1 |
| bookworm | Fixed | 4.6.1-1 |
| 8.0 | Affected | — |
References
- http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=532c34b5fbf1687df63b3fcd5b2846312ac943c6
- http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3616
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/538803/30/0/threaded
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/91540
- https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=116741
- https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/532c34b5fbf1687df63b3fcd5b2846312ac943c6
- https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-6130.html
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2016-6130
CWEs
CWE-362
Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.
Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.