CVE-2016-7914 (GCVE-0-2016-7914)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2016-11-16 04:49
Modified
2024-08-06 02:13
Severity ?
CWE
  • n/a
Summary
The assoc_array_insert_into_terminal_node function in lib/assoc_array.c in the Linux kernel before 4.5.3 does not check whether a slot is a leaf, which allows local users to obtain sensitive information from kernel memory or cause a denial of service (invalid pointer dereference and out-of-bounds read) via an application that uses associative-array data structures, as demonstrated by the keyutils test suite.
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