VYPR
High severity7.8NVD Advisory· Published Oct 16, 2016· Updated Jun 17, 2026

CVE-2016-7425

CVE-2016-7425

Description

The arcmsr_iop_message_xfer function in drivers/scsi/arcmsr/arcmsr_hba.c in the Linux kernel through 4.8.2 does not restrict a certain length field, which allows local users to gain privileges or cause a denial of service (heap-based buffer overflow) via an ARCMSR_MESSAGE_WRITE_WQBUFFER control code.

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