CVE-2016-7917
- Source
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-7917
- Import Source
- https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2016-7917.json
- JSON Data
- https://api.test.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2016-7917
- Downstream
- Related
- Published
- 2016-11-16T05:59:11Z
- Modified
- 2025-08-09T20:01:25Z
- Severity
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- 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
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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.
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