CVE-2016-7117

Description (CNA)

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 (CNA)

CWE

No CWE identifiers supplied.

References

• http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017-0216.html
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2016-7117
• http://source.android.com/security/bulletin/2016-10-01.html
• http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017-0086.html
• http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2962.html
• http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017-0113.html
• http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017-0091.html
• https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1003077
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1382268
• http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017-0031.html
• http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017-0065.html
• https://people.canonical.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/2016/CVE-2016-7117.html
• http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v4.x/ChangeLog-4.5.2
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/93304
• https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/34b88a68f26a75e4fded796f1a49c40f82234b7d
• http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017-0270.html
• http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017-0217.html
• http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017-0036.html
• http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=34b88a68f26a75e4fded796f1a49c40f82234b7d
• http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017-0215.html
• http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017-0196.html

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