cve/2016/CVE-2016-7914.md

### [CVE-2016-7914](https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2016-7914)
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### Description

The assoc_array_insert_into_terminal_node function in lib/assoc_array.c in the Linux kernel before 4.5.3 does not check whether a slot is a leaf, which allows local users to obtain sensitive information from kernel memory or cause a denial of service (invalid pointer dereference and out-of-bounds read) via an application that uses associative-array data structures, as demonstrated by the keyutils test suite.

### POC

#### Reference
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#### Github
- https://github.com/ARPSyndicate/cvemon