CVE-2016-5728: Debian Linux

Medium severity, CVSS 6.3. EPSS: 0.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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.

Affected products

• Debian Debian Linux: version 8.0 only
• Linux Linux Kernel: up to and including 4.6

Published 2016-06-27. Last modified 2026-06-17.