vulnerability

Red Hat: CVE-2016-8655: Important: kernel security, bug fix, and enhancement update (Multiple Advisories)

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)
Published
2016-12-08
Added
2017-03-03
Modified
2023-02-14

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.

Solution(s)

redhat-upgrade-kernelredhat-upgrade-kernel-rt
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