CVE-2016-8655
- State
- Published
- Severity
- Not scored
- Published
- Dec 8, 2016
- Updated
- Aug 6, 2024
- Reserved
- Oct 12, 2016
Description
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.
Scores
The record has no CVSS score.
Weaknesses
The record names no weakness.
Affected Products
| Product | Versions |
|---|---|
n/an/a |
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References
- USN-3151-3vendor-advisory
- SUSE-SU-2016:3096vendor-advisory
- https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/84ac7260236a49c79eede91617700174c2c19b0c
- SUSE-SU-2016:3206vendor-advisory
- SUSE-SU-2016:3169vendor-advisory
- USN-3150-2vendor-advisory
- USN-3149-2vendor-advisory
- 94692vdb-entry
- 1037968vdb-entry
- USN-3150-1vendor-advisory
- SUSE-SU-2016:3117vendor-advisory
- SUSE-SU-2016:3197vendor-advisory
- RHSA-2017:0402vendor-advisory
- USN-3151-1vendor-advisory
- RHSA-2017:0387vendor-advisory
- http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=84ac7260236a49c79eede91617700174c2c19b0c
- 40871exploit
- USN-3149-1vendor-advisory
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1400019
- 44696exploit
- SUSE-SU-2016:3247vendor-advisory
- USN-3151-2vendor-advisory
- SUSE-SU-2016:3183vendor-advisory
- http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/140063/Linux-Kernel-4.4.0-AF_PACKET-Race-Condition-Privilege-Escalation.html
- [oss-security] 20161206 CVE-2016-8655 Linux af_packet.c race condition (local root)mailing-list
- USN-3152-1vendor-advisory
- USN-3152-2vendor-advisory
- RHSA-2017:0386vendor-advisory
- 1037403vdb-entry
- USN-3151-4vendor-advisory
- SUSE-SU-2016:3116vendor-advisory
- SUSE-SU-2016:3113vendor-advisory
- https://source.android.com/security/bulletin/2017-03-01.html
- SUSE-SU-2016:3205vendor-advisory
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