Bugzilla – Bug 1014747
VUL-0: CVE-2016-9120: kernel-source: Race condition in the ion_ioctl function in drivers/staging/android/ion/ion.c inthe Linux kernel be...
Last modified: 2016-12-09 08:38:54 UTC
CVE-2016-9120 Race condition in the ion_ioctl function in drivers/staging/android/ion/ion.c in the Linux kernel before 4.6 allows local users to gain privileges or cause a denial of service (use-after-free) by calling ION_IOC_FREE on two CPUs at the same time. References: http://web.nvd.nist.gov/view/vuln/detail?vulnId=CVE-2016-9120 http://people.canonical.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/2016/CVE-2016-9120.html http://www.cvedetails.com/cve/CVE-2016-9120/ https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/9590232bb4f4cc824f3425a6e1349afbe6d6d2b7 http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=9590232bb4f4cc824f3425a6e1349afbe6d6d2b7
this is an android only driver.