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.
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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2015-12-28T11:00:00

Updated: 2024-08-06T08:20:43.195Z

Reserved: 2015-12-11T00:00:00

Link: CVE-2015-8543

cve-icon Vulnrichment

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Analyzed

Published: 2015-12-28T11:59:06.077

Modified: 2023-06-07T12:47:10.247

Link: CVE-2015-8543

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Moderate

Publid Date: 2015-12-09T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2015-8543 - Bugzilla