CVEvulnerability

CVE-2016-8399

7.0 HIGH Published 2017-01-12 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2017-01-12
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
7.0 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
7.6 HIGH — AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
Weaknesses
CWE-284

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.

Affected configurations

• linux linux kernel (>= 3.19 < 4.1.37) • linux linux kernel (>= 4.2 < 4.4.38) • linux linux kernel (>= 4.5 < 4.8.14)

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-284 Improper Access Control weakness

References