CVE-2016-4998 (GCVE-0-2016-4998)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2016-07-03 21:00 – Updated: 2024-08-06 00:46
VLAI?
Summary
The IPT_SO_SET_REPLACE setsockopt implementation in the netfilter subsystem in the Linux kernel before 4.6 allows local users to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds read) or possibly obtain sensitive information from kernel heap memory by leveraging in-container root access to provide a crafted offset value that leads to crossing a ruleset blob boundary.
Severity ?
No CVSS data available.
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
References
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security… x_refsource_CONFIRM
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-3017-1 vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTU
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security… x_refsource_CONFIRM
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-3017-3 vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTU
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-1847.html vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHAT
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-annou… vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSE
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-3018-2 vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTU
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-3017-2 vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTU
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-1875.html vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHAT
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-3019-1 vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTU
http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3607 vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIAN
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-3016-2 vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTU
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-3016-1 vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTU
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/06/24/5 mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-3018-1 vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTU
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1036171 vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACK
https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/6e94e0cf… x_refsource_CONFIRM
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1349886 x_refsource_CONFIRM
http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torva… x_refsource_CONFIRM
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security… x_refsource_CONFIRM
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-1883.html vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHAT
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-annou… vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSE
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-3016-3 vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTU
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017-0036.html vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHAT
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-3016-4 vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTU
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/91451 vdb-entryx_refsource_BID
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-3020-1 vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTU
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