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prionPRIOn knowledge basePRION:CVE-2016-1583
HistoryJun 27, 2016 - 10:59 a.m.

Design/Logic Flaw

2016-06-2710:59:00
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6.9 Medium

AI Score

Confidence

Low

0.001 Low

EPSS

Percentile

19.8%

The ecryptfs_privileged_open function in fs/ecryptfs/kthread.c in the Linux kernel before 4.6.3 allows local users to gain privileges or cause a denial of service (stack memory consumption) via vectors involving crafted mmap calls for /proc pathnames, leading to recursive pagefault handling.

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