Race condition in Oracle VM Server for x86 and Oracle Linux - CVE-2016-6480

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Race condition in Oracle VM Server for x86 and Oracle Linux - CVE-2016-6480

Published: September 7, 2016 / Updated: January 11, 2017


Vulnerability identifier: #VU359
CSH Severity: Medium
CVSS v4: 6.9 [CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:L/VI:L/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]
CVE-ID: CVE-2016-6480
CWE-ID: CWE-362
Exploitation vector: Local access
Exploit availability: No public exploit available

Vulnerability details

The vulnerability allows local users to provoke a denial of service.

The vulnerability exists due to parafunction of ioctl_send_fib. By altering "double fetch" vulnerability, a local user can provoke a denial of service.

Successful exploitation of this vulnerability will allow an attacker to cause a denial of service


Affected software

Oracle VM Server for x86
Oracle Linux
Ubuntu
Fedora
kernel

How to mitigate CVE-2016-6480


kernel - addressed in versions 4.7.2-101.fc23, 4.7.2-201.fc24

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