UBUNTU-CVE-2016-7910
Use-after-free vulnerability in the disk_seqf_stop function in block/genhd.c in the Linux kernel before 4.7.1 allows local users to gain privileges by leveraging the execution of a certain stop operation even if the corresponding start operation had failed.
02 / AFFECTED SOFTWARE
Affected packages
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03 / CONNECTIONS
Connected vulnerabilities
04 / EVIDENCE
Source records
Use-after-free vulnerability in the disk_seqf_stop function in block/genhd.c in the Linux kernel before 4.7.1 allows local users to gain privileges by leveraging the execution of a certain stop operation even if the corresponding start operation had failed.
05 / REFERENCES
Further evidence
- http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=77da160530dd1dc94f6ae15a981f24e5f0021e84
- http://source.android.com/security/bulletin/2016-11-01.html
- http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v4.x/ChangeLog-4.7.1
- https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/77da160530dd1dc94f6ae15a981f24e5f0021e84
- https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2016-7910
- https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-3206-1
- https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-3207-1
- https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-3207-2
- https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2016-7910