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HistoryDec 22, 2016 - 12:00 a.m.

K38472857 : Kernel vulnerability CVE-2016-8655

2016-12-2200:00:00
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30

7.7 High

AI Score

Confidence

High

0.0004 Low

EPSS

Percentile

9.5%

Security Advisory Description

Race condition in net/packet/af_packet.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 CAP_NET_RAW capability to change a socket version, related to the packet_set_ring and packet_setsockopt functions. (CVE-2016-8655)
Impact
There is no impact; F5 products are not affected by this vulnerability.