CVE-2016-6156: Linux Kernel

Medium severity, CVSS 5.1. EPSS: 0.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Race condition in the ec_device_ioctl_xcmd function in drivers/platform/chrome/cros_ec_dev.c in the Linux kernel before 4.7 allows local users to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds array access) by changing a certain size value, aka a "double fetch" vulnerability.

Affected products

• Linux Linux Kernel: up to and including 4.6.6

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