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CVE-2016-8399

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.

  • Published: Jan 12, 2017
  • Updated: Nov 9, 2025
  • CVE: CVE-2016-8399
  • Severity: High
  • Exploit:

CVSS v3:

  • Severity: High
  • Score: 7
  • AV:L/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

CVSS v2:

  • Severity: High
  • Score: 7.6
  • AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

CWEs:

OWASP TOP 10:

Software From Fixed in
linux / linux_kernel 3.19 4.1.37
linux / linux_kernel 4.5 4.8.14
linux / linux_kernel 4.2 4.4.38