CVE-2016-7917

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Source
https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2016-7917
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2016-7917.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2016-7917
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Published
2016-11-16T05:59:11.970Z
Modified
2026-03-10T14:12:01.926652Z
Severity
  • 5.0 (Medium) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N CVSS Calculator
Summary
[none]
Details

The nfnetlinkrcvbatch 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 CAPNETADMIN capability.

References

Affected packages

Git /

Affected ranges

Database specific

unresolved_ranges 
[
    {
        "events": [
            {
                "introduced": "0"
            },
            {
                "last_affected": "4.4.32"
            }
        ]
    }
]
source 
"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2016-7917.json"