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Medium severity6.8NVD Advisory· Published Feb 8, 2016· Updated Jun 17, 2026

CVE-2016-0723

CVE-2016-0723

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.

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