CVE-2016-5728

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Published 2016-06-27 · Modified 2026-05-06

CVSS v3

6.3

CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:H

CVSS v2

5.4

VIR risk

6.3

Description

Race condition in the vop_ioctl function in drivers/misc/mic/vop/vop_vringh.c in the MIC VOP driver in the Linux kernel before 4.6.1 allows local users to obtain sensitive information from kernel memory or cause a denial of service (memory corruption and system crash) by changing a certain header, aka a "double fetch" vulnerability.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

63%

Patch ETA

—

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: debian — https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2016-5728

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: suse — https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-5728.html

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: cve@mitre.org — https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/9bf292bfca94694a721449e3fd752493856710f6

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: cve@mitre.org — http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=9bf292bfca94694a721449e3fd752493856710f6

OS impact

OS	Version	Status	Fixed in
sles		affected
debian	bookworm	fixed	`4.6.1-1`
debian	bullseye	fixed	`4.6.1-1`
debian	forky	fixed	`4.6.1-1`
debian	sid	fixed	`4.6.1-1`
debian	trixie	fixed	`4.6.1-1`
linux-kernel		affected
debian	8.0	affected

References

CWEs

CWE-119

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