CVE-2016-10200

high

Published 2017-03-07 · Modified 2026-05-13

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CVSS v3

7.0

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

CVSS v4 NEW

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not yet in upstream

VIR risk

7.0

Description

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.

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

OS	Version	Status	Fixed in
sles		affected
debian	bookworm	fixed	`4.8.15-1`
debian	bullseye	fixed	`4.8.15-1`
debian	forky	fixed	`4.8.15-1`
debian	sid	fixed	`4.8.15-1`
debian	trixie	fixed	`4.8.15-1`
linux-kernel		affected	`3.2`

References

CWEs

CWE-264 CWE-362 CWE-416

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

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