CVE Catalog

CVE-2016-10200

High
Published: Translated: NVD NIST

Summary

A race condition in the L2TPv3 IP Encapsulation feature in the Linux kernel before 4.8.14 allows local users to gain privileges or cause a denial of service (use-after-free) by making multiple bind system calls without properly ascertaining whether a socket has the SOCK_ZAPPED status.

Risk Assessment

Organizations may be exposed to unauthorized access to systems and denial of service attacks, potentially leading to service outages.

Recommendation

It is recommended to update the Linux kernel to version 4.8.14 or later to mitigate this vulnerability.

Related vulnerabilities

Original NVD description (English source)

Race condition in the L2TPv3 IP Encapsulation feature in the Linux kernel before 4.8.14 allows local users to gain privileges or cause a denial of service (use-after-free) by making multiple bind system calls without properly ascertaining whether a socket has the SOCK_ZAPPED status, related to net/l2tp/l2tp_ip.c and net/l2tp/l2tp_ip6.c.

Vulnerability data from NVD (NIST) · CISA KEV · EPSS