CVE-2016-0723

MediumCVSS 6.8/10Last modified Jun 17, 2026

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.

Metrics

CVSS 3.0 6.8/10CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:H

Weakness enumeration

CWE-200 CWE-362

Affected software

No affected versions have been published.

Timeline

Published: Feb 8, 2016
Last modified: Jun 17, 2026
NVD status: Modified

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