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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 leveragi…

Impact

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.

Affected products

VendorProductAffected versions
LinuxLinux Kernel
before 3.2.84
from 3.3 before 3.10.103
from 3.11 before 3.12.63
from 3.13 before 3.14.76
from 3.15 before 3.16.39
from 3.17 before 3.18.40

Weakness classification

CWE-416

References