| Name | CVE-2016-5728 |
| Description | Race condition in the vop_ioctl function in drivers/misc/mic/vop/vop_vringh.c in the MIC VOP driver in the Linux kernel before 4.6.1 allows local users to obtain sensitive information from kernel memory or cause a denial of service (memory corruption and system crash) by changing a certain header, aka a "double fetch" vulnerability. |
| Source | CVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more) |
| References | DSA-3616-1 |
Vulnerable and fixed packages
The table below lists information on source packages.
| Source Package | Release | Version | Status |
|---|
| linux (PTS) | bullseye | 5.10.223-1 | fixed |
| bullseye (security) | 5.10.226-1 | fixed |
| bookworm | 6.1.115-1 | fixed |
| bookworm (security) | 6.1.119-1 | fixed |
| trixie | 6.12.5-1 | fixed |
| sid | 6.12.6-1 | fixed |
The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.
| Package | Type | Release | Fixed Version | Urgency | Origin | Debian Bugs |
|---|
| linux | source | wheezy | (not affected) | | | |
| linux | source | jessie | 3.16.7-ckt25-2+deb8u3 | | DSA-3616-1 | |
| linux | source | (unstable) | 4.6.1-1 | | | |
Notes
[wheezy] - linux <not-affected> (Vulnerable code not present)
Upstream fix: https://git.kernel.org/linus/9bf292bfca94694a721449e3fd752493856710f6 (v4.7-rc1)
Introduced in: https://git.kernel.org/linus/f69bcbf3b4c4b333dcd7a48eaf868bf0c88edab5 (v3.13-rc1)