CVE-2016-4998
- State
- Published
- Severity
- Not scored
- Published
- Jul 3, 2016
- Updated
- Aug 6, 2024
- Reserved
- May 24, 2016
Description
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.
Scores
The record has no CVSS score.
Weaknesses
The record names no weakness.
Affected Products
| Product | Versions |
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References
- http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/linuxbulletinjul2016-3090544.html
- USN-3017-1vendor-advisory
- http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/linuxbulletinoct2016-3090545.html
- USN-3017-3vendor-advisory
- RHSA-2016:1847vendor-advisory
- openSUSE-SU-2016:2184vendor-advisory
- USN-3018-2vendor-advisory
- USN-3017-2vendor-advisory
- RHSA-2016:1875vendor-advisory
- USN-3019-1vendor-advisory
- DSA-3607vendor-advisory
- USN-3016-2vendor-advisory
- USN-3016-1vendor-advisory
- [oss-security] 20160624 Linux CVE-2016-4997 (local privilege escalation) and CVE-2016-4998 (out of bounds memory access)mailing-list
- USN-3018-1vendor-advisory
- 1036171vdb-entry
- https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/6e94e0cfb0887e4013b3b930fa6ab1fe6bb6ba91
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1349886
- http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=6e94e0cfb0887e4013b3b930fa6ab1fe6bb6ba91
- http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/ovmbulletinoct2016-3090547.html
- RHSA-2016:1883vendor-advisory
- SUSE-SU-2016:2105vendor-advisory
- USN-3016-3vendor-advisory
- RHSA-2017:0036vendor-advisory
- USN-3016-4vendor-advisory
- 91451vdb-entry
- USN-3020-1vendor-advisory
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