| Revision Date: | 2016-08-06 | Version: | 1 | | Title: | CVE-2016-6480 on Ubuntu 14.04 LTS (trusty) - medium. | | Description: | Race condition in the ioctl_send_fib function in drivers/scsi/aacraid/commctrl.c in the Linux kernel through 4.7 allows local users to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds access or system crash) by changing a certain size value, aka a "double fetch" vulnerability. Pengfei Wang discovered a race condition in the Adaptec AAC RAID controller driver in the Linux kernel when handling ioctl()s. A local attacker could use this to cause a denial of service (system crash).
| | Family: | unix | Class: | vulnerability | | Status: | | Reference(s): | CVE-2016-6480
| | Platform(s): | Ubuntu 14.04 LTS
| Product(s): | | | Definition Synopsis | | Ubuntu 14.04 LTS (trusty) is installed. AND Package Information
The 'linux' package in trusty was vulnerable but has been fixed (note: '3.13.0-98.145').
OR NOT While related to the CVE in some way, the 'linux-aws' package in trusty is not affected (note: '4.4.0-1002.2').
OR While related to the CVE in some way, a decision has been made to ignore it.
OR While related to the CVE in some way, a decision has been made to ignore it.
OR While related to the CVE in some way, a decision has been made to ignore it.
OR While related to the CVE in some way, a decision has been made to ignore it (note: 'end-of-life').
OR The 'linux-lts-vivid' package in trusty was vulnerable but has been fixed (note: '3.19.0-71.79~14.04.1').
OR While related to the CVE in some way, a decision has been made to ignore it (note: 'end-of-life').
OR The 'linux-lts-xenial' package in trusty was vulnerable but has been fixed (note: '4.4.0-42.62~14.04.1').
OR While related to the CVE in some way, a decision has been made to ignore it.
OR While related to the CVE in some way, a decision has been made to ignore it.
OR While related to the CVE in some way, a decision has been made to ignore it.
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