ISOMAN

CVE

CVE-2016-7117

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.

Severity
CRITICAL
CVSS
9.8
Published
Modified
NVD detailAll CVEs

Linked Releases

DistributionReleaseStatusEvidence
Ubuntu16.04.7 amd64 desktopunknownsource
Ubuntu16.04.6 i386 desktopunknownsource
Ubuntu16.04.7 amd64 serverunknownsource
Ubuntu16.04.6 i386 serverunknownsource

References

  1. http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=34b88a68f26a75e4fded796f1a49c40f82234b7d
  2. http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2962.html
  3. http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017-0031.html
  4. http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017-0036.html
  5. http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017-0065.html
  6. http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017-0086.html
  7. http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017-0091.html
  8. http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017-0113.html
  9. http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017-0196.html
  10. http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017-0215.html
  11. http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017-0216.html
  12. http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017-0217.html
  13. http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017-0270.html
  14. http://source.android.com/security/bulletin/2016-10-01.html
  15. http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v4.x/ChangeLog-4.5.2
  16. http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/93304
  17. https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1003077
  18. https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1382268
  19. https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/34b88a68f26a75e4fded796f1a49c40f82234b7d
  20. https://people.canonical.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/2016/CVE-2016-7117.html