CVE-2016-10200 Race condition in n/a

What is CVE-2016-10200?

CVE-2016-10200 is a high-severity vulnerability in Google Android, published on 7 Mar 2017. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.

Official 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.

Weakness: CWE-416, CWE-362, CWE-264

Which versions are affected by CVE-2016-10200?

It affects 2 products.

Products include Google Android, Linux kernel.

How do I fix CVE-2016-10200?

Apply the vendor's patch.

Is CVE-2016-10200 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2016-10200 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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All Google Android vulnerabilities

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as DEBIAN-CVE-2016-10200, GHSA-w7wm-xr7c-fp79, UBUNTU-CVE-2016-10200.