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CVE-2016-8655

7.8 highEPSS 11%

High (7.8). EPSS 11% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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.

Severity

CVSS 3.1

7.8 high
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
EPSS
11% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 95% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
CWEs
CWE-362, CWE-416
Published
Modified
Record from
the NVD, synced

Affected

References

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