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CVE-2016-5728

Status: ModifiedMedium (6.3)—
Severity6.3Medium · CVSS 3.0
Exploitation probability0.40 %higher than 34% of CVEs
Active exploitationNonot in the CISA catalog
Public exploitNot knownno public code found

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.

CVSS

Base score
6.3
Version
3.0
Vector
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:H

Exploitation probability (EPSS)

Probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
0.40 %
Percentile among all scored CVEs
34
Score date
10/24/2026

EPSS (Exploit Prediction Scoring System, FIRST) estimates how likely a vulnerability is to be exploited in the wild within 30 days. It complements CVSS (impact) and CISA KEV (confirmed exploitation).

Affected technologies (2)

Debian — Debian LinuxLinux — Linux Kernel

CWEs

References

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