CVSS 3.0
5.0 mediumCVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:NCVE-2016-7917
The nfnetlink_rcv_batch function in net/netfilter/nfnetlink.c in the Linux kernel before 4.5 does not check whether a batch message's length field is large enough, which allows local users to obtain sensitive information from kernel memory or cause a denial of service (infinite loop or out-of-bounds read) by leveraging the CAP_NET_ADMIN capability.
Severity
- EPSS
- 1.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 74% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
- CWEs
- CWE-125, CWE-200
- Published
- Modified
- Record from
- the NVD, synced
Affected
- linux:linux_kernel
References
- http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=c58d6c93680f28ac58984af61d0a7ebf4319c241
- http://source.android.com/security/bulletin/2016-11-01.html
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/94147
- https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/c58d6c93680f28ac58984af61d0a7ebf4319c241
- http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=c58d6c93680f28ac58984af61d0a7ebf4319c241