CVE-2016-8655

Race condition in net/packet/afpacket.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 CAPNETRAW capability to change a socket version, related to the packetsetring and packetsetsockopt functions...

CVE-2016-8655

CVE-2016-8655 describes a race condition in the Linux kernel AF_PACKET path (net/packet/af_packet.c) that, up to version 4.8.12, could allow a local user with CAP_NET_RAW to change a socket version via packet_set_ring/packet_setsockopt, leading to use-after-free, privilege escalation or DoS. Conn...

Amazon Linux AMI : kernel (ALAS-2016-772)

CVE-2016-8645 kernel: a BUG statement can be hit in net/ipv4/tcpinput.c It was discovered that the Linux kernel since 3.6-rc1 with net.ipv4.tcpfastopen; set to 1 can hit BUG statement in tcpcollapse function after making a number of certain syscalls leading to a possible system crash. CVE-2016-86...

SUSE SLED12 / SLES12 Security Update : kernel (SUSE-SU-2016:3039-1)

The SUSE Linux Enterprise 12 SP1 kernel was updated to receive various critical security fixes. The following security bugs were fixed : - CVE-2016-8655: A race condition in the afpacket packetsetring function could be used by local attackers to crash the kernel or gain privileges bsc1012754. -...

CVE-2016-8655

creationtimestamp| type| source ---|---|--- 2016-12-06 00:00:00+00:00| exploited| https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/40871 2016-12-07 16:53:10+00:00| exploited| https://t.me/canyoupwnme/397 2018-05-22 00:00:00+00:00| exploited| https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/44696 2018-05-29 15:50:33+00:00|...

Ubuntu 16.10 : linux vulnerability (USN-3152-1)

Philip Pettersson discovered a race condition in the afpacket implementation in the Linux kernel. A local unprivileged attacker could use this to cause a denial of service system crash or run arbitrary code with administrative privileges. Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the...

[ASA-201612-5] linux-grsec: privilege escalation

Arch Linux Security Advisory ASA-201612-5 ========================================= Severity: High Date : 2016-12-06 CVE-ID : CVE-2016-8655 Package : linux-grsec Type : privilege escalation Remote : No Link : https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/CVE Summary ======= The package linux-grsec before...

[ASA-201612-7] linux-lts: privilege escalation

Arch Linux Security Advisory ASA-201612-7 ========================================= Severity: High Date : 2016-12-06 CVE-ID : CVE-2016-8655 Package : linux-lts Type : privilege escalation Remote : No Link : https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/CVE Summary ======= The package linux-lts before...