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medium 4.7

CVE-2016-6130 json

Race condition in the sclp_ctl_ioctl_sccb function in drivers/s390/char/sclp_ctl.c in the Linux kernel before 4.6 allows local users to obt…

published 2016-07-03 10 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2016-7064

cvss
4.7
version 3.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
0.3%
EPSS 0.3% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 19%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

Race condition in the sclp_ctl_ioctl_sccb function in drivers/s390/char/sclp_ctl.c in the Linux kernel before 4.6 allows local users to obtain sensitive information from kernel memory by changing a certain length value, aka a "double fetch" vulnerability.

Patch / fix

  • linux Debian 14, Debian 13, Debian 12 4.6.1-1

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2016-6130

  • linux Ubuntu 16.04 LTS 4.4.0-42.62

ubuntu advisories UBUNTU-CVE-2016-6130

Ubuntu security data © Canonical Ltd., from https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices via OSV; changed: normalised to fixed package versions per release. CC BY-SA 4.0

  • kernel-ec2 SLE Module for Public Cloud 12 3.12.61-52.66.1
  • kernel-rt SLE Real Time 12 SP1 3.12.67-60.27.1
  • kernel-compute SLE Real Time 12 SP1 3.12.67-60.27.1
  • kernel-syms-rt SLE Real Time 12 SP1 3.12.67-60.27.1
  • kernel-rt_debug SLE Real Time 12 SP1 3.12.67-60.27.1
  • kernel-source-rt SLE Real Time 12 SP1 3.12.67-60.27.1
  • kernel-compute_debug SLE Real Time 12 SP1 3.12.67-60.27.1
  • kernel-ec2 SLE Module for Public Cloud 12 3.12.67-60.64.18.1

suse advisories SUSE-SU-2017:0471-1SUSE-SU-2016:3304-1SUSE-SU-2016:2912-1

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2016-6130 updated cvss 2.2

kernel: Race condition in sclp_ctl_ioctl_sccb function leads to information leak

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 kernel Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 perf, kernel, python-perf, kernel-kdump, kernel-firmware, kernel-bootwrapper, +1 more Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 perf, kernel, bpftool, kernel-rt, python-perf, kernel-kdump, +8 more Red Hat Enterprise MRG 2 kernel-rt, mrg-rt-release, kernel-rt-trace, kernel-rt-vanilla, kernel-rt-firmware
    affected: no fix planned “Will not fix”

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Exploit prediction

0.27% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 19% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 3.0 4.7 CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
NVD 2.0 1.9 AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-362 Concurrent Execution using Shared Resource with Improper Synchronization
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References

Sources

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