PoC Index

CVE-2016-8655

HIGH 7.8EPSS 11.1%

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.

CVSS v3.1
7.8 HIGHCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS v2.0
7.2 HIGHAV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
EPSS
11.13% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, 96th percentile
Published
2016-12-08
Updated
2024-08-06

Proof-of-concept exploits (11)

Metasploit modules (1)

ExploitDB entries (3)

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