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CVE-2016-8399

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CVE-2016-8399

Published: Jan 12, 2017

Modified: Aug 6, 2024

PUBLISHED

Description

An elevation of privilege vulnerability in the kernel networking subsystem could enable a local malicious application to execute arbitrary code within the context of the kernel. This issue is rated as Moderate because it first requires compromising a privileged process and current compiler optimizations restrict access to the vulnerable code. Product: Android. Versions: Kernel-3.10, Kernel-3.18. Android ID: A-31349935.

VendorProductVersions

Google Inc.

Android

affected
Kernel-3.10
affected
Kernel-3.18

References

RHSA-2017:2931
vendor-advisory
x_refsource_REDHAT
94708
vdb-entry
x_refsource_BID
RHSA-2017:0817
vendor-advisory
x_refsource_REDHAT
RHSA-2017:0869
vendor-advisory
x_refsource_REDHAT
RHSA-2017:2930
vendor-advisory
x_refsource_REDHAT

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