CVE-2016-10906: Linux Kernel

High severity, CVSS 7.0. EPSS: 0.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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.

Affected products

• Linux Linux Kernel: before 4.5 (fixed in 4.5)

Published 2019-08-19. Last modified 2026-06-17.