CVE-2016-7910: Linux Kernel

High severity, CVSS 7.8. EPSS: 3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Use-after-free vulnerability in the disk_seqf_stop function in block/genhd.c in the Linux kernel before 4.7.1 allows local users to gain privileges by leveraging the execution of a certain stop operation even if the corresponding start operation had failed.

Affected products

• Linux Linux Kernel: before 3.2.84 (fixed in 3.2.84); from 3.3, before 3.10.103 (fixed in 3.10.103); from 3.11, before 3.12.63 (fixed in 3.12.63); from 3.13, before 3.14.76 (fixed in 3.14.76); from 3.15, before 3.16.39 (fixed in 3.16.39); from 3.17, before 3.18.40 (fixed in 3.18.40); …

Published 2016-11-16. Last modified 2026-06-17.