CVE-2016-0723: Linux Kernel

Medium severity, CVSS 6.8. EPSS: 0.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Race condition in the tty_ioctl function in drivers/tty/tty_io.c in the Linux kernel through 4.4.1 allows local users to obtain sensitive information from kernel memory or cause a denial of service (use-after-free and system crash) by making a TIOCGETD ioctl call during processing of a TIOCSETD ioctl call.

Affected products

• Linux Linux Kernel: up to and including 4.4.1

Published 2016-02-08. Last modified 2026-06-17.