Tracker / CVE-2016-8655
CVE-2016-8655
High 7.8
Race condition in net/packet/af_packet.c in the Linux kernel through 4.8.12 allows local users to gain privileges or cause a denial of service (use-after-free) by leveraging the CAP_NET_RAW capability to change a socket version, related to the packet_set_ring and packet_setsockopt functions.
Affected products and versions
| canonical | ubuntu_linux |
|---|---|
| linux | linux_kernel · 3.11 → 3.12.69 |
| linux | linux_kernel · 3.13 → 3.16.40 |
| linux | linux_kernel · 3.17 → 3.18.46 |
| linux | linux_kernel · 3.19 → 4.1.37 |
| linux | linux_kernel · 3.2 → 3.2.85 |
| linux | linux_kernel · 3.3 → 3.10.106 |
| linux | linux_kernel · 4.2 → 4.4.38 |
| linux | linux_kernel · 4.5 → 4.8.14 |
Analysis
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