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ID:741 - Exploit for Resource exhaustion in Linux kernel - CVE-2016-1583
ID:741 - Exploit for Resource exhaustion in Linux kernel - CVE-2016-1583
Published: March 18, 2020
Vulnerability identifier: #VU4062
Vulnerability risk: Low
CVE-ID: CVE-2016-1583
CWE-ID: CWE-400
Exploitation vector: Local access
Vulnerable software:
Linux kernel
Linux kernel
Link to public exploit:
Vulnerability description
The vulnerability allows a local attacker to cause DoS condition and gain elevated privileges on the target system.
The weakness exists in the ecryptfs_privileged_open function in fs/ecryptfs/kthread.c due to stack memory consumption. A local attacker can cause the service to crash and gain elevated privileges via vectors involving crafted mmap calls for /proc pathnames, leading to recursive pagefault handling.
The weakness exists in the ecryptfs_privileged_open function in fs/ecryptfs/kthread.c due to stack memory consumption. A local attacker can cause the service to crash and gain elevated privileges via vectors involving crafted mmap calls for /proc pathnames, leading to recursive pagefault handling.
Remediation
Update to version 4.6.3.