Medium severity6.8NVD Advisory· Published Feb 8, 2016· Updated May 6, 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.
Patches
0No patches discovered yet.
Vulnerability mechanics
AI mechanics synthesis has not run for this CVE yet.
References
29- git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/nvdVendor Advisory
- lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2016-February/176464.htmlnvd
- lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2016-February/176484.htmlnvd
- lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-03/msg00094.htmlnvd
- lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-04/msg00015.htmlnvd
- lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-04/msg00045.htmlnvd
- lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-07/msg00005.htmlnvd
- lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-08/msg00038.htmlnvd
- source.android.com/security/bulletin/2016-07-01.htmlnvd
- www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3448nvd
- www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3503nvd
- www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/linuxbulletinjul2016-3090544.htmlnvd
- www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/ovmbulletinoct2016-3090547.htmlnvd
- www.securityfocus.com/bid/82950nvd
- www.securitytracker.com/id/1035695nvd
- www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2929-1nvd
- www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2929-2nvd
- www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2930-1nvd
- www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2930-2nvd
- www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2930-3nvd
- www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2932-1nvd
- www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2948-1nvd
- www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2948-2nvd
- www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2967-1nvd
- www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2967-2nvd
- bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cginvd
- github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/5c17c861a357e9458001f021a7afa7aab9937439nvd
- security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2016-0723nvd
- support.f5.com/csp/article/K43650115nvd
News mentions
0No linked articles in our index yet.