Upstream information

CVE-2016-6516 at MITRE

Description

Race condition in the ioctl_file_dedupe_range function in fs/ioctl.c in the Linux kernel through 4.7 allows local users to cause a denial of service (heap-based buffer overflow) or possibly gain privileges by changing a certain count value, aka a "double fetch" vulnerability.

SUSE information

Overall state of this security issue: Does not affect SUSE products

This issue is currently rated as having moderate severity.

CVSS v2 Scores
  National Vulnerability Database SUSE
Base Score 4.4 6.9
Vector AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
Access Vector Local Local
Access Complexity Medium Medium
Authentication None None
Confidentiality Impact Partial Complete
Integrity Impact Partial Complete
Availability Impact Partial Complete
CVSS v3 Scores
  National Vulnerability Database
Base Score 7.4
Vector CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Attack Vector Local
Attack Complexity High
Privileges Required None
User Interaction None
Scope Unchanged
Confidentiality Impact High
Integrity Impact High
Availability Impact High
CVSSv3 Version 3

Note from the SUSE Security Team on the kernel-default package

SUSE will no longer fix all CVEs in the Linux Kernel anymore, but declare some bug classes as won't fix. Please refer to TID 21496 for more details.

SUSE Bugzilla entries: 991604 [RESOLVED / FIXED], 991669 [RESOLVED / FIXED]

No SUSE Security Announcements cross referenced.

List of released packages

Product(s) Fixed package version(s) References
SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 12 SP4
  • kernel-default >= 4.12.14-94.41.1
  • kernel-default-devel >= 4.12.14-94.41.1
  • kernel-default-extra >= 4.12.14-94.41.1
  • kernel-devel >= 4.12.14-94.41.1
  • kernel-docs >= 4.12.14-94.41.1
  • kernel-macros >= 4.12.14-94.41.1
  • kernel-obs-build >= 4.12.14-94.41.1
  • kernel-source >= 4.12.14-94.41.1
  • kernel-syms >= 4.12.14-94.41.1
 Patchnames:
SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 12 SP4 GA kernel-default-4.12.14-94.41.1
SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 12 SP4 GA kernel-docs-4.12.14-94.41.1
SUSE Linux Enterprise Workstation Extension 12 SP4 GA kernel-default-extra-4.12.14-94.41.1
SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 15
  • kernel-default >= 4.12.14-23.1
  • kernel-default-devel >= 4.12.14-23.1
  • kernel-default-extra >= 4.12.14-23.1
  • kernel-devel >= 4.12.14-23.1
  • kernel-docs >= 4.12.14-23.1
  • kernel-macros >= 4.12.14-23.1
  • kernel-obs-build >= 4.12.14-23.1
  • kernel-source >= 4.12.14-23.1
  • kernel-syms >= 4.12.14-23.1
  • kernel-vanilla-base >= 4.12.14-23.1
 Patchnames:
SUSE Linux Enterprise Module for Basesystem 15 GA kernel-default-4.12.14-23.1
SUSE Linux Enterprise Module for Development Tools 15 GA kernel-docs-4.12.14-23.1
SUSE Linux Enterprise Workstation Extension 15 GA kernel-default-extra-4.12.14-23.1
SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15
  • kernel-default >= 4.12.14-23.1
  • kernel-default-devel >= 4.12.14-23.1
  • kernel-devel >= 4.12.14-23.1
  • kernel-docs >= 4.12.14-23.1
  • kernel-macros >= 4.12.14-23.1
  • kernel-obs-build >= 4.12.14-23.1
  • kernel-source >= 4.12.14-23.1
  • kernel-syms >= 4.12.14-23.1
  • kernel-vanilla-base >= 4.12.14-23.1
  • reiserfs-kmp-default >= 4.12.14-23.1
 Patchnames:
SUSE Linux Enterprise Module for Basesystem 15 GA kernel-default-4.12.14-23.1
SUSE Linux Enterprise Module for Development Tools 15 GA kernel-docs-4.12.14-23.1
SUSE Linux Enterprise Module for Legacy 15 GA reiserfs-kmp-default-4.12.14-23.1
SUSE Linux Enterprise Module for Basesystem 15
  • kernel-default >= 4.12.14-23.1
  • kernel-default-devel >= 4.12.14-23.1
  • kernel-devel >= 4.12.14-23.1
  • kernel-macros >= 4.12.14-23.1
 Patchnames:
SUSE Linux Enterprise Module for Basesystem 15 GA kernel-default-4.12.14-23.1
SUSE Linux Enterprise Module for Development Tools 15
  • kernel-docs >= 4.12.14-23.1
  • kernel-obs-build >= 4.12.14-23.1
  • kernel-source >= 4.12.14-23.1
  • kernel-syms >= 4.12.14-23.1
  • kernel-vanilla-base >= 4.12.14-23.1
 Patchnames:
SUSE Linux Enterprise Module for Development Tools 15 GA kernel-docs-4.12.14-23.1
SUSE Linux Enterprise Module for Legacy 15
  • reiserfs-kmp-default >= 4.12.14-23.1
 Patchnames:
SUSE Linux Enterprise Module for Legacy 15 GA reiserfs-kmp-default-4.12.14-23.1
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP4
  • kernel-default >= 4.12.14-94.41.1
  • kernel-default-base >= 4.12.14-94.41.1
  • kernel-default-devel >= 4.12.14-94.41.1
  • kernel-default-extra >= 4.12.14-94.41.1
  • kernel-default-man >= 4.12.14-94.41.1
  • kernel-devel >= 4.12.14-94.41.1
  • kernel-docs >= 4.12.14-94.41.1
  • kernel-macros >= 4.12.14-94.41.1
  • kernel-obs-build >= 4.12.14-94.41.1
  • kernel-source >= 4.12.14-94.41.1
  • kernel-syms >= 4.12.14-94.41.1
 Patchnames:
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP4 GA kernel-default-4.12.14-94.41.1
SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 12 SP4 GA kernel-docs-4.12.14-94.41.1
SUSE Linux Enterprise Workstation Extension 12 SP4 GA kernel-default-extra-4.12.14-94.41.1
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 15
  • kernel-default >= 4.12.14-23.1
  • kernel-default-devel >= 4.12.14-23.1
  • kernel-default-extra >= 4.12.14-23.1
  • kernel-devel >= 4.12.14-23.1
  • kernel-docs >= 4.12.14-23.1
  • kernel-macros >= 4.12.14-23.1
  • kernel-obs-build >= 4.12.14-23.1
  • kernel-source >= 4.12.14-23.1
  • kernel-syms >= 4.12.14-23.1
  • kernel-vanilla-base >= 4.12.14-23.1
  • reiserfs-kmp-default >= 4.12.14-23.1
 Patchnames:
SUSE Linux Enterprise Module for Basesystem 15 GA kernel-default-4.12.14-23.1
SUSE Linux Enterprise Module for Development Tools 15 GA kernel-docs-4.12.14-23.1
SUSE Linux Enterprise Module for Legacy 15 GA reiserfs-kmp-default-4.12.14-23.1
SUSE Linux Enterprise Workstation Extension 15 GA kernel-default-extra-4.12.14-23.1
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 12 SP4
  • kernel-default-extra >= 4.12.14-94.41.1
  • kernel-docs >= 4.12.14-94.41.1
  • kernel-obs-build >= 4.12.14-94.41.1
 Patchnames:
SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 12 SP4 GA kernel-docs-4.12.14-94.41.1
SUSE Linux Enterprise Workstation Extension 12 SP4 GA kernel-default-extra-4.12.14-94.41.1
SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 12 SP4
  • kernel-docs >= 4.12.14-94.41.1
  • kernel-obs-build >= 4.12.14-94.41.1
 Patchnames:
SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 12 SP4 GA kernel-docs-4.12.14-94.41.1
SUSE Linux Enterprise Workstation Extension 12 SP4
  • kernel-default-extra >= 4.12.14-94.41.1
 Patchnames:
SUSE Linux Enterprise Workstation Extension 12 SP4 GA kernel-default-extra-4.12.14-94.41.1
SUSE Linux Enterprise Workstation Extension 15
  • kernel-default-extra >= 4.12.14-23.1
 Patchnames:
SUSE Linux Enterprise Workstation Extension 15 GA kernel-default-extra-4.12.14-23.1
openSUSE Leap 15.0
  • kernel-default >= 4.12.14-lp150.11.4
  • kernel-vanilla-base >= 4.12.14-lp150.11.4
 Patchnames:
openSUSE Leap 15.0 GA kernel-default-4.12.14-lp150.11.4
openSUSE Tumbleweed
  • kernel-debug >= 4.8.13-1.1
  • kernel-debug-base >= 4.8.13-1.1
  • kernel-debug-devel >= 4.8.13-1.1
  • kernel-default >= 4.8.13-1.1
  • kernel-default-base >= 4.8.13-1.1
  • kernel-default-devel >= 4.8.13-1.1
  • kernel-devel >= 4.8.13-1.1
  • kernel-docs >= 4.8.13-1.1
  • kernel-docs-html >= 4.8.13-1.1
  • kernel-docs-pdf >= 4.8.13-1.1
  • kernel-macros >= 4.8.13-1.1
  • kernel-obs-build >= 4.8.13-1.1
  • kernel-obs-qa >= 4.8.13-1.1
  • kernel-pae >= 4.8.13-1.1
  • kernel-pae-base >= 4.8.13-1.1
  • kernel-pae-devel >= 4.8.13-1.1
  • kernel-source >= 4.8.13-1.1
  • kernel-source-vanilla >= 4.8.13-1.1
  • kernel-syms >= 4.8.13-1.1
  • kernel-syzkaller >= 4.8.13-1.1
  • kernel-syzkaller-base >= 4.8.13-1.1
  • kernel-syzkaller-devel >= 4.8.13-1.1
  • kernel-vanilla >= 4.8.13-1.1
  • kernel-vanilla-base >= 4.8.13-1.1
  • kernel-vanilla-devel >= 4.8.13-1.1
 Patchnames:
openSUSE-Tumbleweed-2024-10128

Status of this issue by product and package

Please note that this evaluation state might be work in progress, incomplete or outdated. Also information for service packs in the LTSS phase is only included for issues meeting the LTSS criteria. If in doubt, feel free to contact us for clarification. The updates are grouped by state of their lifecycle. SUSE product lifecycles are documented on the lifecycle page.

Product(s) Source package State
Products under general support and receiving all security fixes.
SUSE Linux Enterprise Micro 5.1 kernel-default Analysis
SUSE Linux Enterprise Micro 5.1 kernel-rt Unsupported
SUSE Linux Enterprise Micro 5.1 kernel-source-rt Unsupported
SUSE Linux Enterprise Micro 5.2 kernel-default Analysis
SUSE Linux Enterprise Micro 5.2 kernel-rt Unsupported
SUSE Linux Enterprise Micro 5.2 kernel-source-rt Unsupported
Products under Long Term Service Pack support and receiving important and critical security fixes.
SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15 SP2 kernel-source-azure Already fixed
SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15 SP3 kernel-default Unsupported
SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15 SP3 kernel-source Unsupported
SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15 SP3 kernel-source-azure Already fixed
SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15 SP3-ESPOS kernel-source Analysis
SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15 SP3-LTSS kernel-source Analysis
SUSE Linux Enterprise Module for Basesystem 15 SP3 kernel-default Unsupported
SUSE Linux Enterprise Module for Basesystem 15 SP3 kernel-source Unsupported
SUSE Linux Enterprise Module for Development Tools 15 SP3 kernel-default Unsupported
SUSE Linux Enterprise Module for Development Tools 15 SP3 kernel-source Unsupported
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP4 LTSS EXTREME CORE kernel-source Analysis
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP2 kernel-source-azure Already fixed
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP3 kernel-default Unsupported
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP3 kernel-source Unsupported
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP3 kernel-source-azure Already fixed
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP3-LTSS kernel-source Analysis
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15-ESPOS kernel-default Already fixed
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15-ESPOS kernel-source Already fixed
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 15 SP2 kernel-source-azure Already fixed
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 15 SP3 kernel-default Unsupported
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 15 SP3 kernel-source Unsupported
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 15 SP3 kernel-source-azure Already fixed
Products past their end of life and not receiving proactive updates anymore.
HPE Helion OpenStack 8 kernel-source Analysis
SLES for SAP Applications 11 SP3 kernel-default Unsupported
SLES for SAP Applications 11 SP3 kernel-source Unsupported
SUSE CaaS Platform 4.0 kernel-source Analysis
SUSE CaaS Platform Toolchain 3 kernel-source Analysis
SUSE Enterprise Storage 6 kernel-source Analysis
SUSE Enterprise Storage 7 kernel-source-azure Already fixed
SUSE Enterprise Storage 7.1 kernel-default Unsupported
SUSE Enterprise Storage 7.1 kernel-source Unsupported
SUSE Enterprise Storage 7.1 kernel-source-azure Already fixed
SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 11 SP3 kernel-source Unsupported
SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 11 SP4 kernel-source Analysis
SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 12 kernel-source Unsupported
SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 12 SP2 kernel-source Unsupported
SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 12 SP3 kernel-default Unsupported
SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 12 SP3 kernel-source Unsupported
SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 12 SP4 kernel-default Unsupported
SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 12 SP4 kernel-source Unsupported
SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 15 kernel-default Unsupported
SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 15 kernel-source Unsupported
SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 15 SP1 kernel-source Analysis
SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 15 SP3 kernel-default Unsupported
SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 15 SP3 kernel-source Unsupported
SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 12 SP4 kernel-default Unsupported
SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 12 SP4 kernel-source Unsupported
SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15 kernel-default Unsupported
SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15 kernel-source Unsupported
SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15 kernel-source-azure Already fixed
SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15 SP1 kernel-source Analysis
SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15 SP1-ESPOS kernel-default Unsupported
SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15 SP1-ESPOS kernel-source Unsupported
SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15 SP1-LTSS kernel-source Analysis
SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15-ESPOS kernel-source Already fixed
SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15-LTSS kernel-default Already fixed
SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15-LTSS kernel-source Already fixed
SUSE Linux Enterprise Micro 5.0 kernel-default Analysis
SUSE Linux Enterprise Module for Basesystem 15 kernel-default Unsupported
SUSE Linux Enterprise Module for Basesystem 15 kernel-source Unsupported
SUSE Linux Enterprise Module for Basesystem 15 SP1 kernel-source Analysis
SUSE Linux Enterprise Module for Development Tools 15 kernel-default Unsupported
SUSE Linux Enterprise Module for Development Tools 15 kernel-source Unsupported
SUSE Linux Enterprise Module for Development Tools 15 SP1 kernel-source Analysis
SUSE Linux Enterprise Module for Public Cloud 15 kernel-source-azure Already fixed
SUSE Linux Enterprise Module for Public Cloud 15 SP2 kernel-source-azure Already fixed
SUSE Linux Enterprise Module for Public Cloud 15 SP3 kernel-source-azure Already fixed
SUSE Linux Enterprise Point of Sale 11 SP3 kernel-source Unsupported
SUSE Linux Enterprise Point of Sale 12 SP2-CLIENT kernel-source Unsupported
SUSE Linux Enterprise Real Time 15 SP3 kernel-source Analysis
SUSE Linux Enterprise Real Time 15 SP3 kernel-source-rt Unsupported
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP3 kernel-source Unsupported
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP3 LTSS kernel-default Unsupported
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP3 LTSS kernel-source Unsupported
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP3-LTSS kernel-source Unsupported
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP4 kernel-source Analysis
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP4-LTSS kernel-default Unsupported
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP4-LTSS kernel-source Unsupported
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 kernel-source Unsupported
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP2 kernel-source Unsupported
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP2-BCL kernel-source Unsupported
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP2-ESPOS kernel-source Unsupported
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP2-LTSS kernel-default Unsupported
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP2-LTSS kernel-source Unsupported
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP3 kernel-default Unsupported
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP3 kernel-source Unsupported
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP3-BCL kernel-source Analysis
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP3-ESPOS kernel-source Analysis
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP3-LTSS kernel-source Analysis
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP4 kernel-default Analysis
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP4 kernel-source Analysis
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP4 kernel-source-azure Already fixed
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP4-ESPOS kernel-default Already fixed
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP4-ESPOS kernel-source Already fixed
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP4-ESPOS kernel-source-azure Already fixed
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP4-LTSS kernel-default Already fixed
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP4-LTSS kernel-source Already fixed
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP4-LTSS kernel-source-azure Already fixed
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12-LTSS kernel-default Unsupported
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12-LTSS kernel-source Unsupported
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 kernel-default Unsupported
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 kernel-source Unsupported
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 kernel-source-azure Already fixed
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP1 kernel-source Analysis
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP1-BCL kernel-source Analysis
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP1-LTSS kernel-source Analysis
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP3-BCL kernel-source Analysis
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15-LTSS kernel-default Already fixed
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15-LTSS kernel-source Already fixed
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for Raspberry Pi 12 SP2 kernel-source Unsupported
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 12 kernel-default Unsupported
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 12 kernel-source Unsupported
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 12 SP2 kernel-default Unsupported
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 12 SP2 kernel-source Unsupported
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 12 SP3 kernel-source Analysis
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 12 SP4 kernel-default Already fixed
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 12 SP4 kernel-source Already fixed
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 12 SP4 kernel-source-azure Already fixed
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 15 kernel-default Already fixed
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 15 kernel-source Already fixed
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 15 kernel-source-azure Already fixed
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 15 SP1 kernel-source Analysis
SUSE Manager Proxy 4.0 kernel-source Analysis
SUSE Manager Proxy 4.1 kernel-source-azure Already fixed
SUSE Manager Proxy 4.2 kernel-default Unsupported
SUSE Manager Proxy 4.2 kernel-source Unsupported
SUSE Manager Proxy 4.2 kernel-source-azure Already fixed
SUSE Manager Retail Branch Server 4.0 kernel-source Analysis
SUSE Manager Retail Branch Server 4.1 kernel-source-azure Already fixed
SUSE Manager Retail Branch Server 4.2 kernel-default Unsupported
SUSE Manager Retail Branch Server 4.2 kernel-source Unsupported
SUSE Manager Retail Branch Server 4.2 kernel-source-azure Already fixed
SUSE Manager Server 4.0 kernel-source Analysis
SUSE Manager Server 4.1 kernel-source-azure Already fixed
SUSE Manager Server 4.2 kernel-default Unsupported
SUSE Manager Server 4.2 kernel-source Unsupported
SUSE Manager Server 4.2 kernel-source-azure Already fixed
SUSE OpenStack Cloud 7 kernel-source Unsupported
SUSE OpenStack Cloud 8 kernel-source Analysis
SUSE OpenStack Cloud 9 kernel-default Already fixed
SUSE OpenStack Cloud 9 kernel-source Already fixed
SUSE OpenStack Cloud 9 kernel-source-azure Already fixed
SUSE OpenStack Cloud Crowbar 8 kernel-source Analysis
SUSE OpenStack Cloud Crowbar 9 kernel-default Already fixed
SUSE OpenStack Cloud Crowbar 9 kernel-source Already fixed
SUSE OpenStack Cloud Crowbar 9 kernel-source-azure Already fixed
SUSE Real Time Module 15 SP3 kernel-source-rt Unsupported
openSUSE Leap 15.3 kernel-source Analysis
openSUSE Leap 15.3 kernel-source-azure Analysis
openSUSE Leap 15.3 kernel-source-rt Unsupported

SUSE Timeline for this CVE

CVE page created: Tue Aug 2 02:16:33 2016
CVE page last modified: Mon Nov 11 14:31:15 2024