Tracker / CVE-2016-4998
CVE-2016-4998
High 7.1
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.
Affected products and versions
| canonical | ubuntu_linux |
|---|---|
| linux | linux_kernel · … → 4.5.5 |
| oracle | linux |
Analysis
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