{"id":"CVE-2016-2085","details":"The evm_verify_hmac function in security/integrity/evm/evm_main.c in the Linux kernel before 4.5 does not properly copy data, which makes it easier for local users to forge MAC values via a timing side-channel attack.","modified":"2026-03-15T22:05:34.275275Z","published":"2016-04-27T17:59:07.977Z","related":["MGASA-2016-0225","MGASA-2016-0232","MGASA-2016-0233"],"references":[{"type":"WEB","url":"https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2016-2085"},{"type":"WEB","url":"https://people.canonical.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/2016/CVE-2016-2085.html"},{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=613317bd212c585c20796c10afe5daaa95d4b0a1"},{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2946-1"},{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2947-3"},{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2946-2"},{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2947-1"},{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2947-2"},{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2948-1"},{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2948-2"},{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2949-1"},{"type":"REPORT","url":"https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1324867"},{"type":"FIX","url":"https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/613317bd212c585c20796c10afe5daaa95d4b0a1"}],"affected":[{"database_specific":{"source":"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2016-2085.json","unresolved_ranges":[{"events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"last_affected":"4.4.8"}]}]}}],"schema_version":"1.7.5","severity":[{"type":"CVSS_V3","score":"CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N"}]}