CVE-2016-6156

kernel: Race condition vulnerability in Chrome driver

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Severity

Moderate

Red Hat Product Security

5.3

CVSS 3.0

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Published · July 4, 2016

Updated · February 27, 2026

Description

A timing flaw was found in the Chrome EC driver in the Linux kernel. An attacker could abuse timing to skip validation checks to copy additional data from userspace possibly increasing privilege or crashing the system.

Statement

This issue does not affect Red Hat Enterprise Linux products as they have not included this feature in any shipping products.

CVSS score applicability

The CVSS score(s) listed for this vulnerability do not reflect the associated product's status, and are included for informational purposes to better understand the severity of this vulnerability.

Mitigation

No mitigation is specified in collected source.

CVSS / CWE

CVSS 3.0 · 5.3
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:H

CVSS 2.0 · 3.3
AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:P

CWE-362 · Concurrent Execution using Shared Resource with Improper Synchronization ('Race Condition')