CVEvulnerability

CVE-2016-7117

9.8 CRITICAL Published 2016-10-10 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2016-10-10
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
9.8 CRITICAL — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
10.0 HIGH — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
Weaknesses
CWE-19

Description

Use-after-free vulnerability in the __sys_recvmmsg function in net/socket.c in the Linux kernel before 4.5.2 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via vectors involving a recvmmsg system call that is mishandled during error processing.

Affected configurations

• debian debian linux 7.0 • linux linux kernel (>= 2.6.33 < 3.2.80) • linux linux kernel (>= 3.3 < 3.4.113) • linux linux kernel (>= 3.5 < 3.10.102) • linux linux kernel (>= 3.11 < 3.12.59) • linux linux kernel (>= 3.13 < 3.14.67) • linux linux kernel (>= 3.15 < 3.16.35) • linux linux kernel (>= 3.17 < 3.18.37) • linux linux kernel (>= 3.19 < 4.1.28) • linux linux kernel (>= 4.2.0 < 4.4.8) • linux linux kernel (>= 4.5.0 < 4.5.2) • canonical ubuntu linux 16.04

Related

Weakness · not in database (1)

References