CVE-2016-8655
Published
CVSS v3
7.8
HIGH
CVSS v2
7.2
HIGH
Affected
1
PROJECT
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.
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