CVE-2016-4951

Source
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-4951
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2016-4951.json
JSON Data
https://api.test.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2016-4951
Downstream
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Published
2016-05-23T10:59:15Z
Modified
2025-08-09T20:01:28Z
Severity
  • 7.8 (High) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H CVSS Calculator
Summary
[none]
Details

The tipcnlpubl_dump function in net/tipc/socket.c in the Linux kernel through 4.6 does not verify socket existence, which allows local users to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and system crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a dumpit operation.

References

Affected packages