CVE-2016-10906

unknown

Published — · Modified —

CVSS v3

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CVSS v2

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VIR risk

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Description

An issue was discovered in drivers/net/ethernet/arc/emac_main.c in the Linux kernel before 4.5. A use-after-free is caused by a race condition between the functions arc_emac_tx and arc_emac_tx_clean.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

20%

Patch ETA

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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: debian — https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2016-10906

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: suse — https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-10906.html

OS impact

OS	Version	Status	Fixed in
sles		affected
debian	bookworm	fixed	`4.5.1-1`
debian	bullseye	fixed	`4.5.1-1`
debian	forky	fixed	`4.5.1-1`
debian	sid	fixed	`4.5.1-1`
debian	trixie	fixed	`4.5.1-1`

References

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-10906.html
https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2016-10906

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.