CVE-2016-1583
HIGH severity · CVSS 7.8 · Memory corruption
7.8CVSS HIGH
Summary
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.
Impact & exploitability
Attack vectorLocal
Attack complexityLow
Privileges requiredLow
User interactionNone
Confidentiality impactHigh
Integrity impactHigh
Availability impactHigh
Exploit probability (EPSS)1%
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Affected products we track (1)
Recommendation
Apply the vendor fix promptly. Open any affected product above for its exact safe version.
Additional information
- NVD record
- http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=2f36db71009304b3f0b95afacd8eba1f9f046b87Advisory
- http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=f5364c150aa645b3d7daa21b5c0b9feaa1c9cd6dAdvisory
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-06/msg00027.htmlAdvisory
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-06/msg00044.htmlAdvisory
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-06/msg00052.htmlAdvisory
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-06/msg00056.htmlAdvisory
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-08/msg00000.htmlAdvisory
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-08/msg00003.htmlAdvisory