CVE-2016-8399

Published: 12 January 2017

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.

From the Ubuntu Security Team

Qidan He discovered that the ICMP implementation in the Linux kernel did not properly check the size of an ICMP header. A local attacker with CAP_NET_ADMIN could use this to expose sensitive information.

Notes

android kernels (flo, goldfish, grouper, maguro, mako and manta) are
not supported on the Ubuntu Touch 14.10 and earlier preview kernels
linux-lts-saucy no longer receives official support
linux-lts-quantal no longer receives official support

Status

Severity score breakdown

References

• https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-3189-1
• https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-3189-2
• https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-3190-1
• https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-3190-2
• https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2016-8399
• NVD
• Launchpad
• Debian