CVE-2016-8655
CVE-2016-8655
Patch soon. has a working public exploit.
Vexday Risk Score
43Attention
SSVC decision (CISA)
Attend
PoC available → attend closely
Exploit maturity
Functional exploit
Popular PoC on GitHub (12 stars) — exploitation code widely available.
CVSS —EPSS 11.1%KEV nãoPoC públicaNuclei —Metasploit simPatch referenciado
Lifecycle
12 Aug 2016Metasploit module available
06 Dec 2016Public PoC
08 Dec 2016Published on NVD
Recommendation: Plan a near-term fix — a public PoC already exists.
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.
Affected products
n/a · n/apublic PoCs found — 11
githubgithub.com/martinmullins/CVE-2016-8655_Android★ 12githubgithub.com/LakshmiDesai/CVE-2016-8655★ 5githubgithub.com/agkunkle/chocobo★ 0githubgithub.com/scarvell/cve-2016-8655★ 0githubgithub.com/KosukeShimofuji/CVE-2016-8655★ 0cve_referencepacketstormsecurity.com/files/140063/Linux-Kernel-4.4.0-AF_PACKET-Race-Condition-Privilege-Escalation.htmlunverifiedexploitdbwww.exploit-db.com/exploits/47170unverifiedcve_referencewww.exploit-db.com/exploits/40871/unverifiedcve_referencewww.exploit-db.com/exploits/44696/unverifiedexploitdbwww.exploit-db.com/exploits/44696unverifiedexploitdbwww.exploit-db.com/exploits/40871unverified⚠ Public resources, to assess the exposure of systems you control or are authorized to test. Test only with authorization.
References
http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=84ac7260236a49c79eede91617700174c2c19b0chttp://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-12/msg00044.htmlhttp://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-12/msg00054.htmlhttp://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-12/msg00055.htmlhttp://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-12/msg00056.htmlhttp://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-12/msg00067.htmlhttp://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-12/msg00070.htmlhttp://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-12/msg00073.htmlhttp://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-12/msg00076.htmlhttp://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-12/msg00077.htmlhttp://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-12/msg00087.htmlhttp://packetstormsecurity.com/files/140063/Linux-Kernel-4.4.0-AF_PACKET-Race-Condition-Privilege-Escalation.html