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high 7.8

CVE-2016-10905 json

An issue was discovered in fs/gfs2/rgrp.c in the Linux kernel before 4.8.

published 2019-08-19 7 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2016-1899

cvss
7.8
version 3.1, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
0.6%
EPSS 0.6% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 48%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

An issue was discovered in fs/gfs2/rgrp.c in the Linux kernel before 4.8. A use-after-free is caused by the functions gfs2_clear_rgrpd and read_rindex_entry.

Patch / fix

  • linux linux_kernel 3.16.74, 4.4.191, 4.8
  • linux Debian 14, Debian 13, Debian 12 4.8.5-1

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2016-10905

  • linux Ubuntu 16.04 LTS 4.4.0-165.193
  • linux-aws Ubuntu 16.04 LTS 4.4.0-1095.106
  • linux-kvm Ubuntu 16.04 LTS 4.4.0-1059.66
  • linux-raspi2 Ubuntu 16.04 LTS 4.4.0-1123.132
  • linux-snapdragon Ubuntu 16.04 LTS 4.4.0-1127.135
  • linux-snapdragon Ubuntu 18.04 LTS 4.15.0-1053.57
  • linux-aws Ubuntu Pro 14.04 LTS 4.4.0-1055.59
  • linux-fips Ubuntu Pro FIPS-updates 16.04 LTS 4.4.0-1022.27

ubuntu advisories UBUNTU-CVE-2016-10905

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-syms SLES for SAP 12 SP3, SLES 12 SP3-LTSS, SLES 12 SP3-BCL +3 more 4.4.180-94.156.1
  • kernel-source SLES for SAP 12 SP3, SLES 12 SP3-LTSS, SLES 12 SP3-BCL +3 more 4.4.180-94.156.1
  • kernel-default SLES for SAP 12 SP3, SLES 12 SP3-LTSS, SLES 12 SP3-BCL +4 more 4.4.180-94.156.1
  • kgraft-patch-SLE12-SP3_Update_43 SLES for SAP 12 SP3, SLES 12 SP3-LTSS, OpenStack Cloud Crowbar 8 +2 more 1-4.3.1
  • kernel-syms SLES 12 SP2-BCL 4.4.121-92.169.1
  • kernel-source SLES 12 SP2-BCL 4.4.121-92.169.1
  • kernel-default SLES 12 SP2-BCL 4.4.121-92.169.1

suse advisories SUSE-SU-2022:0762-1SUSE-SU-2022:0756-1

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-2016-10905 updated cvss 6.2

kernel: use-after-free in fs/gfs2/rgrp.c

  • 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, kernel-alt, python-perf, +9 more Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 perf, kernel, bpftool, kernel-rt, kernel-core, kernel-tools, +29 more Red Hat Enterprise MRG 2 kernel-rt, mrg-rt-release, kernel-rt-trace, kernel-rt-vanilla, kernel-rt-firmware
    not affected: vulnerable code not present

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

Exploit prediction

0.58% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 48% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 3.1 7.8 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
NVD 2.0 6.1 AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:C

Classification

Weakness
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Sources

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