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CVE-2016-0723
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…
Medium6.8EPSS 0.38%
- Published
- Updated
- Reserved
- Assigned by
- redhat
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.
Timeline
ID reserved
By redhat
- 54 days later
· 54 days later
Published
- 8 years later
· 8 years later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.0 | Medium6.8 | CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:H |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 0.38% · top 67% of all CVEs (8 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 6.8.
Weakness
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References (29)
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2016-0723 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- USN-2930-1 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTUx_transferred
- USN-2967-1 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTUx_transferred
- http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/linuxbulletinjul2016-3090544.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1296253 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- USN-2930-2 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTUx_transferred
- DSA-3503 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIANx_transferred
- USN-2967-2 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTUx_transferred
- SUSE-SU-2016:1764 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSEx_transferred
- http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=5c17c861a357e9458001f021a7afa7aab9937439 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- USN-2930-3 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTUx_transferred
- SUSE-SU-2016:1102 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSEx_transferred
- http://source.android.com/security/bulletin/2016-07-01.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- USN-2929-1 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTUx_transferred
- USN-2932-1 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTUx_transferred
- 82950 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- FEDORA-2016-5d43766e33 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORAx_transferred
- SUSE-SU-2016:2074 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSEx_transferred
- http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/ovmbulletinoct2016-3090547.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- 1035695 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACKx_transferred
- USN-2948-1 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTUx_transferred
- DSA-3448 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIANx_transferred
- openSUSE-SU-2016:1008 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSEx_transferred
- USN-2929-2 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTUx_transferred
- https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/5c17c861a357e9458001f021a7afa7aab9937439 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- USN-2948-2 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTUx_transferred
- FEDORA-2016-2f25d12c51 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORAx_transferred
- SUSE-SU-2016:0911 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSEx_transferred
- https://support.f5.com/csp/article/K43650115 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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