CVE-2016-9754 (GCVE-0-2016-9754)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2017-01-05 11:00
Modified
2024-08-06 02:59
Severity ?
CWE
  • n/a
Summary
The ring_buffer_resize function in kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c in the profiling subsystem in the Linux kernel before 4.6.1 mishandles certain integer calculations, which allows local users to gain privileges by writing to the /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/buffer_size_kb file.
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