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CVE-2015-8543
high
Description
The networking implementation in the Linux kernel through 4.3.3, as used in Android and other products, does not validate protocol identifiers for certain protocol families, which allows local users to cause a denial of service (NULL function pointer dereference and system crash) or possibly gain privileges by leveraging CLONE_NEWUSER support to execute a crafted SOCK_RAW application.
References
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1290475
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2890-3
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2890-2
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2890-1
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2888-1
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2886-1
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1034892
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/79698
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/linuxbulletinapr2016-2952096.html
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/12/09/5
http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3434
http://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3426
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2584.html
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2574.html
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-0855.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-08/msg00038.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-04/msg00045.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-03/msg00094.html