VYPR
High severity7.8NVD Advisory· Published Jun 27, 2016· Updated Jun 17, 2026

CVE-2016-1583

CVE-2016-1583

Description

The ecryptfs_privileged_open function in fs/ecryptfs/kthread.c in the Linux kernel before 4.6.3 allows local users to gain privileges or cause a denial of service (stack memory consumption) via vectors involving crafted mmap calls for /proc pathnames, leading to recursive pagefault handling.

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