View at Official ubuntu advisory, NVD, CVE.org · CVE detail
Freshness: upstream tracker timestamp is available; use API updated time as primary recency signal.
CVE-2016-8655 high priority: Ubuntu including 27 source packages (linux, linux-armadaxp, …), 162 status rows across 6 suites (precise, trusty, upstream, xenial, yakkety, zesty): DNE 103, released 40, ignored 11, not-affected 8.
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.