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SUSE: CVE-2016-8399: SUSE Linux Security Advisory

Severity
8
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)
Published
01/12/2017
Created
07/25/2018
Added
01/31/2017
Modified
02/04/2022

Description

An elevation of privilege vulnerability in the kernel networking subsystem could enable a local malicious application to execute arbitrary code within the context of the kernel. This issue is rated as Moderate because it first requires compromising a privileged process and current compiler optimizations restrict access to the vulnerable code. Product: Android. Versions: Kernel-3.10, Kernel-3.18. Android ID: A-31349935.

Solution(s)

  • suse-upgrade-kernel-default
  • suse-upgrade-kernel-docs
  • suse-upgrade-kernel-ec2
  • suse-upgrade-kernel-ec2-devel
  • suse-upgrade-kernel-ec2-extra
  • suse-upgrade-kernel-obs-build

References

  • SUSE-SU-2017:0333-1
  • SUSE-SU-2017:0407-1
  • SUSE-SU-2017:0437-1
  • SUSE-SU-2017:0464-1
  • SUSE-SU-2017:0471-1
  • SUSE-SU-2017:0494-1
  • SUSE-SU-2017:1102-1
  • RHSA-2017:0817
  • RHSA-2017:0869
  • RHSA-2017:2930
  • RHSA-2017:2931
  • 94708
  • CVE-2016-8399
  • USN-3189-1
  • USN-3189-2
  • USN-3190-1
  • USN-3190-2
  • DLA-772-1
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