suse · CVE-2016-8655

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Priority: medium Published: 2021-05-30 13:46:53 UTC Updated: 2025-05-17 23:55:19 UTC

View at Official suse advisory, NVD, CVE.org · CVE detail

Freshness: upstream tracker timestamp is available; use API updated time as primary recency signal.

Tracker summary

CVE-2016-8655 severity moderate: SUSE including 208 source package names (cluster-md-kmp-default-4.4.21-84.1, cluster-network-kmp-default-4.4.21-84.1, …), 571 product×package rows across 84 product lines (HPE Helion OpenStack 8, SLES for SAP Applications 11 SP3, … (84 product lines)): Known Not Affected 342, Fixed 229.

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.

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