CVE-2016-10906
High
CVE-2016-10906
An issue was discovered in drivers/net/ethernet/arc/emac_main.c in the Linux kernel before 4.5. A use-after-free is caused by a race condition between the functions arc_emac_tx and arc_emac_tx_clean.
Exploit probability
0.4%
Published
August 19, 2019
Required by
Not available
Last source change
March 15, 2026
02 / AFFECTED SOFTWARE
Affected packages
03 / CONNECTIONS
Connected vulnerabilities
04 / EVIDENCE
Source records
Open Source Vulnerabilities
CVE-2016-10906
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An issue was discovered in drivers/net/ethernet/arc/emac_main.c in the Linux kernel before 4.5. A use-after-free is caused by a race condition between the functions arc_emac_tx and arc_emac_tx_clean.
05 / REFERENCES
Further evidence
- http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/155212/Slackware-Security-Advisory-Slackware-14.2-kernel-Updates.html
- https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=c278c253f3d992c6994d08aa0efb2b6806ca396f
- https://seclists.org/bugtraq/2019/Nov/11
- https://support.f5.com/csp/article/K01993501?utm_source=f5support&%3Butm_medium=RSS
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/4163-1/
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/4163-2/