Bug 1352558 (CVE-2016-6130) - CVE-2016-6130 kernel: Race condition in sclp_ctl_ioctl_sccb function leads to information leak
Summary: CVE-2016-6130 kernel: Race condition in sclp_ctl_ioctl_sccb function leads to...
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Status: CLOSED WONTFIX
Alias: CVE-2016-6130
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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Depends On: 1352559
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Reported: 2016-07-04 10:30 UTC by Adam Mariš
Modified: 2019-09-29 13:52 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2016-07-04 12:54:42 UTC
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Description Adam Mariš 2016-07-04 10:30:59 UTC 
The sclp_ctl_ioctl_sccb function in drivers/s390/char/sclp_ctl.c in the Linux kernel before 4.6 allows local users to obtain sensitive information from kernel memory by changing a certain length value.

Upstream patch:

https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/532c34b5fbf1687df63b3fcd5b2846312ac943c6
Comment 1 Adam Mariš 2016-07-04 10:31:42 UTC 
Created kernel tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1352559]
Comment 3 Fedora Update System 2016-07-19 22:19:20 UTC 
kernel-4.6.4-201.fc23 has been pushed to the Fedora 23 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
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