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Tracker / CVE-2016-7117

CVE-2016-7117

Critical 9.8

Use-after-free vulnerability in the __sys_recvmmsg function in net/socket.c in the Linux kernel before 4.5.2 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via vectors involving a recvmmsg system call that is mishandled during error processing.

Affected products and versions

canonical ubuntu_linux
debian debian_linux
linux linux_kernel · 2.6.33 → 3.2.80
linux linux_kernel · 3.11 → 3.12.59
linux linux_kernel · 3.13 → 3.14.67
linux linux_kernel · 3.15 → 3.16.35
linux linux_kernel · 3.17 → 3.18.37
linux linux_kernel · 3.19 → 4.1.28
linux linux_kernel · 3.3 → 3.4.113
linux linux_kernel · 3.5 → 3.10.102
linux linux_kernel · 4.2.0 → 4.4.8
linux linux_kernel · 4.5.0 → 4.5.2

Analysis

This page is not indexable yet.Until it carries original analysis — what it actually exposes, how to check in two minutes whether a system was touched, what to do if it was — the page stays noindex. The database decides that, not the template.

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