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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…
Critical9.8EPSS 23.6%
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- Updated
- Reserved
- Assigned by
- google_android
Description
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.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.1 | Critical9.8 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 23.6% · top 2.2% of all CVEs (3 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Critical 9.8.
Weakness
Affected products
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- affected n/a
References (21)
- RHSA-2017:0216 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2016-7117 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- http://source.android.com/security/bulletin/2016-10-01.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- RHSA-2017:0086 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- RHSA-2016:2962 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- RHSA-2017:0113 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- RHSA-2017:0091 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1003077 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1382268 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- RHSA-2017:0031 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- RHSA-2017:0065 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- https://people.canonical.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/2016/CVE-2016-7117.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v4.x/ChangeLog-4.5.2 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- 93304 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/34b88a68f26a75e4fded796f1a49c40f82234b7d (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- RHSA-2017:0270 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- RHSA-2017:0217 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- RHSA-2017:0036 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=34b88a68f26a75e4fded796f1a49c40f82234b7d (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- RHSA-2017:0215 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- RHSA-2017:0196 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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