Linux 4.4.0 < 4.4.0-53 - AF_PACKET chocobo_root Privilege Escalation Exploit

This Metasploit module exploits a race condition and use-after-free in the packetsetring function in net/packet/afpacket.c AFPACKET in the Linux kernel to execute code as root CVE-2016-8655. The bug was initially introduced in 2011 and patched in 2016 in version 4.4.0-53.74, potentially affecting...