NVD

Id
22449  
Name
CVE-2016-9793  
Description
The sock_setsockopt function in net/core/sock.c in the Linux kernel before 4.8.14 mishandles negative values of sk_sndbuf and sk_rcvbuf, which allows local users to cause a denial of service (memory corruption and system crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact by leveraging the CAP_NET_ADMIN capability for a crafted setsockopt system call with the (1) SO_SNDBUFFORCE or (2) SO_RCVBUFFORCE option.  
Reject
 
CVSS Version
2  
CVSS Score
7.2  
Severity
High  
CVSS Base Score
7.2  
CVSS Impact Subscore
10  
CVSS Exploit Subscore
3.9  
CVSS Vector
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)  
Pub Date
2017-07-18  
Published
2016-12-28  
Modified Date
2017-07-17  
Seq
2016-9793  

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Related NVD References

Id NVD Id NVD No. Reference Actions
119135 22449 CVE-2016-9793 http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=b98b0bc8c431e3ceb4b26b0dfc8db509518fb290  View
119136 22449 CVE-2016-9793 http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v4.x/ChangeLog-4.8.14  View
119137 22449 CVE-2016-9793 [oss-security] 20161202 Re: CVE Request: Linux: signed overflows for SO_{SND|RCV}BUFFORCE  View
119138 22449 CVE-2016-9793 94655  View
119139 22449 CVE-2016-9793 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1402013  View
119140 22449 CVE-2016-9793 https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/b98b0bc8c431e3ceb4b26b0dfc8db509518fb290  View

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