CVE-2016-8655

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Source
https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2016-8655
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2016-8655.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2016-8655
Downstream
Related
Published
2016-12-08T08:59:00.177Z
Modified
2026-03-15T22:00:13.127758Z
Severity
  • 7.8 (High) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H CVSS Calculator
Summary
[none]
Details

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.

References

Affected packages

Git /

Affected ranges

Database specific

source 
"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2016-8655.json"
unresolved_ranges 
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    {
        "events": [
            {
                "introduced": "3.2"
            },
            {
                "fixed": "3.2.85"
            }
        ]
    },
    {
        "events": [
            {
                "introduced": "3.3"
            },
            {
                "fixed": "3.10.106"
            }
        ]
    },
    {
        "events": [
            {
                "introduced": "3.11"
            },
            {
                "fixed": "3.12.69"
            }
        ]
    },
    {
        "events": [
            {
                "introduced": "3.13"
            },
            {
                "fixed": "3.16.40"
            }
        ]
    },
    {
        "events": [
            {
                "introduced": "3.17"
            },
            {
                "fixed": "3.18.46"
            }
        ]
    },
    {
        "events": [
            {
                "introduced": "3.19"
            },
            {
                "fixed": "4.1.37"
            }
        ]
    },
    {
        "events": [
            {
                "introduced": "4.2"
            },
            {
                "fixed": "4.4.38"
            }
        ]
    },
    {
        "events": [
            {
                "introduced": "4.5"
            },
            {
                "fixed": "4.8.14"
            }
        ]
    },
    {
        "events": [
            {
                "introduced": "0"
            },
            {
                "last_affected": "12.04"
            }
        ]
    },
    {
        "events": [
            {
                "introduced": "0"
            },
            {
                "last_affected": "14.04"
            }
        ]
    },
    {
        "events": [
            {
                "introduced": "0"
            },
            {
                "last_affected": "16.04"
            }
        ]
    },
    {
        "events": [
            {
                "introduced": "0"
            },
            {
                "last_affected": "16.10"
            }
        ]
    }
]