CVE-2016-8399

high

Published 2017-01-12 · Modified 2026-05-06

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CVSS v3

7.0

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

CVSS v4 NEW

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not yet in upstream

VIR risk

7.0

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.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

69%

Patch ETA

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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

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OS impact

Linux kernel Affected 1 release

Version	Status	Fixed in
—	Affected	`4.1.37`

SUSE Affected 1 release

Version	Status	Fixed in
—	Affected	—

Debian Fixed 5 releases

Version	Status	Fixed in
trixie	Fixed	`4.8.15-1`
sid	Fixed	`4.8.15-1`
forky	Fixed	`4.8.15-1`
bullseye	Fixed	`4.8.15-1`
bookworm	Fixed	`4.8.15-1`

References

CWEs

CWE-284

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.