CVSS 3.0
7.1 highCVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:HCVE-2016-4998
High (7.1). EPSS 1.9% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.
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
- EPSS
- 1.9% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 79% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
- CWE
- CWE-119
- Published
- Modified
- Record from
- the NVD, synced
Affected
- canonical:ubuntu_linux
- linux:linux_kernel
- oracle:linux
References
- http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=6e94e0cfb0887e4013b3b930fa6ab1fe6bb6ba91
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-08/msg00044.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-08/msg00055.html
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-1847.html
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-1875.html