VYPR
Critical severity9.8NVD Advisory· Published Oct 10, 2016· Updated Jun 17, 2026

CVE-2016-7117

CVE-2016-7117

Description

Use-after-free vulnerability in the __sys_recvmmsg function in net/socket.c in the Linux kernel before 4.5.2 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via vectors involving a recvmmsg system call that is mishandled during error processing.

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