CVE-2016-7117
- State
- Published
- Severity
- Not scored
- Published
- Oct 10, 2016
- Updated
- Aug 6, 2024
- Reserved
- Aug 30, 2016
Description
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.
Scores
The record has no CVSS score.
Weaknesses
The record names no weakness.
Affected Products
| Product | Versions |
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n/an/a |
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References
- RHSA-2017:0216vendor-advisory
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2016-7117
- http://source.android.com/security/bulletin/2016-10-01.html
- RHSA-2017:0086vendor-advisory
- RHSA-2016:2962vendor-advisory
- RHSA-2017:0113vendor-advisory
- RHSA-2017:0091vendor-advisory
- https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1003077
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1382268
- RHSA-2017:0031vendor-advisory
- RHSA-2017:0065vendor-advisory
- https://people.canonical.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/2016/CVE-2016-7117.html
- http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v4.x/ChangeLog-4.5.2
- 93304vdb-entry
- https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/34b88a68f26a75e4fded796f1a49c40f82234b7d
- RHSA-2017:0270vendor-advisory
- RHSA-2017:0217vendor-advisory
- RHSA-2017:0036vendor-advisory
- http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=34b88a68f26a75e4fded796f1a49c40f82234b7d
- RHSA-2017:0215vendor-advisory
- RHSA-2017:0196vendor-advisory
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