CVE-2016-6136

MediumCVSS 4.7/10Last modified Jun 17, 2026

Description

Race condition in the audit_log_single_execve_arg function in kernel/auditsc.c in the Linux kernel through 4.7 allows local users to bypass intended character-set restrictions or disrupt system-call auditing by changing a certain string, aka a "double fetch" vulnerability.

Metrics

CVSS 3.0 4.7/10CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N

Weakness enumeration

CWE-362

Affected software

Vendor	Product	Versions
n/a	n/a	n/a

References

http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=43761473c254b45883a64441dd0bc85a42f3645cIssue Tracking, Patch
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2574.html
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2584.html
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017-0307.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/538835/30/0/threadedThird Party Advisory, VDB Entry
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/91558
https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=120681Issue Tracking
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1353533Issue Tracking
https://github.com/linux-audit/audit-kernel/issues/18Issue Tracking, Patch
https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/43761473c254b45883a64441dd0bc85a42f3645cIssue Tracking, Patch
https://source.android.com/security/bulletin/2016-11-01.html
http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=43761473c254b45883a64441dd0bc85a42f3645cIssue Tracking, Patch
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2574.html
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2584.html
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017-0307.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/538835/30/0/threadedThird Party Advisory, VDB Entry
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/91558
https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=120681Issue Tracking
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1353533Issue Tracking
https://github.com/linux-audit/audit-kernel/issues/18Issue Tracking, Patch
https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/43761473c254b45883a64441dd0bc85a42f3645cIssue Tracking, Patch
https://source.android.com/security/bulletin/2016-11-01.html

Timeline

Published: Aug 6, 2016
Last modified: Jun 17, 2026
NVD status: Modified

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