cve/2016/CVE-2016-7916.md

### [CVE-2016-7916](https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2016-7916)
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### Description

Race condition in the environ_read function in fs/proc/base.c in the Linux kernel before 4.5.4 allows local users to obtain sensitive information from kernel memory by reading a /proc/*/environ file during a process-setup time interval in which environment-variable copying is incomplete.

### POC

#### Reference
No PoCs from references.

#### Github
- https://github.com/thdusdl1219/CVE-Study
- https://github.com/vincent-deng/veracode-container-security-finding-parser