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LIN6-11972 : Security Advisory - linux - CVE-2016-7916

Created: Nov 17, 2016    Updated: Dec 3, 2018
Resolved Date: Nov 21, 2016
Found In Version: 6.0
Fix Version: 6.0.0.32
Severity: Standard
Applicable for: Wind River Linux 6
Component/s: Kernel

Description

Race condition in the environ_read function in fs/proc/base.c in the Linux kernel before 4.5.4 allows local users to obtain sensitive information from kernel memory by reading a /proc/*/environ file during a process-setup time interval in which environment-variable copying is incomplete.

http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2016-7916

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