CVE-2016-0723

Race condition in the tty_ioctl function in drivers/tty/tty_io.c in the Linux kernel through 4.4.1 allows local users to obtain sensitive information from kernel memory or cause a denial of service (use-after-free and system crash) by making a TIOCGETD ioctl call during processing of a TIOCSETD ioctl call.

Date published : 2016-02-07

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/82950

http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=5c17c861a357e9458001f021a7afa7aab9937439