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ghsa-8jgg-fm67-jxqm

Vulnerability from github

Published

2022-05-17 03:35

Modified

2022-05-17 03:35

Severity ?

5.0 (Medium) - CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

Details

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.

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CVE-2016-7917 (GCVE-0-2016-7917)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5

Published

2016-11-16 04:49

Modified

2024-08-06 02:13

Severity ?

CWE

n/a

Summary

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.

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URL

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	http://source.android.com/security/bulletin/2016-11-01.html	x_refsource_CONFIRM
	http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=c58d6c93680f28ac58984af61d0a7ebf4319c241	x_refsource_CONFIRM
	http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/94147	vdb-entry, x_refsource_BID
	https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/c58d6c93680f28ac58984af61d0a7ebf4319c241	x_refsource_CONFIRM

Impacted products

	Vendor	Product	Version
	n/a	n/a	Version: n/a

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