Linux kernel packet_set_ring function local denial of service vulnerability

The Linux kernel is the kernel used by the operating system Linux, released by the Linux Foundation in the United States. A security vulnerability exists in the 'packetsetring' function of the net/packet/afpacket.c file in Linux kernel versions 4.10.6 and earlier, which stems from a program that...

UBUNTU-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...