Medium severity4.7NVD Advisory· Published Jul 3, 2016· Updated May 6, 2026
CVE-2016-6130
CVE-2016-6130
Description
Race condition in the sclp_ctl_ioctl_sccb function in drivers/s390/char/sclp_ctl.c in the Linux kernel before 4.6 allows local users to obtain sensitive information from kernel memory by changing a certain length value, aka a "double fetch" vulnerability.
Patches
0No patches discovered yet.
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References
6- github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/532c34b5fbf1687df63b3fcd5b2846312ac943c6nvdPatchVendor Advisory
- git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/nvd
- www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3616nvd
- www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/538803/30/0/threadednvd
- www.securityfocus.com/bid/91540nvd
- bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cginvd
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