CVE-2016-1583

23Vexday Risk Score

No sign of exploitation. It has a public proof of concept.

ssvc Attendepss 1.4%

from disclosure to weapon0 days

Published on NVDJun 27

1st PoCJun 21

exploitation probability

1.4%top 30% of all CVEs

observed exploitation

nono source reports it

3 public exploit(s)

The ecryptfs_privileged_open function in fs/ecryptfs/kthread.c in the Linux kernel before 4.6.3 allows local users to gain privileges or cause a denial of service (stack memory consumption) via vectors involving crafted mmap calls for /proc pathnames, leading to recursive pagefault handling.

Affected products

n/a · n/a

public PoCs found — 3✓ VexDay Proof

exploitdb✓ VexDay Proofwww.exploit-db.com/exploits/39992 cve_referencepacketstormsecurity.com/files/137560/Linux-ecryptfs-Stack-Overflow.htmlunverified cve_referencewww.exploit-db.com/exploits/39992/unverified

⚠ Public resources, to assess the exposure of systems you control or are authorized to test. Test only with authorization.

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