K68852819 : Linux kernel vulnerability CVE-2016-10200

Security Advisory Description

Race condition in the L2TPv3 IP Encapsulation feature in the Linux kernel before 4.8.14 allows local users to gain privileges or cause a denial of service (use-after-free) by making multiple bind system calls without properly ascertaining whether a socket has the SOCK_ZAPPED status, related to net/l2tp/l2tp_ip.c and net/l2tp/l2tp_ip6.c. (CVE-2016-10200)

Impact

An attacker with administrative command line access may be able to perform a use-after-free exploit to cause a denial of service (DoS) or gain system privileges.