ubuntu · CVE-2016-8399

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Priority: medium Published: 2017-01-12 00:00:00 UTC Updated: 2025-08-25 22:11:57 UTC

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Tracker summary

CVE-2016-8399 medium priority: Ubuntu including 32 source packages (linux, linux-armadaxp, …), 216 status rows across 7 suites (artful, precise, trusty, upstream, xenial, yakkety, zesty): DNE 145, released 42, not-affected 22, ignored 7.

Description:

An elevation of privilege vulnerability in the kernel networking subsystem could enable a local malicious application to execute arbitrary code within the context of the kernel. This issue is rated as Moderate because it first requires compromising a privileged process and current compiler optimizations restrict access to the vulnerable code. Product: Android. Versions: Kernel-3.10, Kernel-3.18. Android ID: A-31349935.

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