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CVE-2016-0617

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2016-0617 is an unspecified vulnerability within the kernel-uek component of Oracle Linux 6. This local vulnerability has a medium severity CVSS score of 5.5, indicating that an attacker with local access could achieve a high impact on system availability with low attack complexity. There is no known public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), nor is there evidence of active exploitation or significant community discussion or media coverage surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
6.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:oracle:linux:6.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.0

5.5MEDIUM

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

Attack Vector
LOCAL
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
LOW
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
HIGH
Exploitability Score
1.8
Impact Score
3.6
CvssVersion
3.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
0.34%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
26.5%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0034 is in the 83rd percentile among its peer group of 15,938 CVEs.

Social Chatter

No social media mentions found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.0 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.1 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.1 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (1)

oraclepatch availablevia nvd_reference
View patch

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2016-0617Moderate

kernel: hugetlbfs: fix bugs in hugetlb_vmtruncate_list()

Feb 8, 2016

References

oracle.com / technetwork/topics/security/linuxbulletinapr2016-2952096.html
PatchVendor Advisory
securitytracker.com / id/1034968