Race condition in the ion_ioctl function in drivers/staging/android/ion/ion.c in the Linux kernel before 4.6 allows local users to gain privileges or cause a denial of service (use-after-free) by calling ION_IOC_FREE on two CPUs at the same time.
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EUVD EUVD EUVD-2016-9940 Race condition in the ion_ioctl function in drivers/staging/android/ion/ion.c in the Linux kernel before 4.6 allows local users to gain privileges or cause a denial of service (use-after-free) by calling ION_IOC_FREE on two CPUs at the same time.
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Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: google_android

Published:

Updated: 2024-08-06T02:42:10.935Z

Reserved: 2016-10-30T00:00:00

Link: CVE-2016-9120

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Status : Deferred

Published: 2016-12-08T21:59:02.443

Modified: 2025-04-12T10:46:40.837

Link: CVE-2016-9120

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