suse · CVE-2016-4997

Quick triage

Priority: high Published: 2021-05-30 13:42:37 UTC Updated: 2025-05-17 23:58:07 UTC

View at Official suse advisory, NVD, CVE.org · CVE detail

Freshness: upstream tracker timestamp is available; use API updated time as primary recency signal.

Tracker summary

CVE-2016-4997 severity important: SUSE including 280 source package names (cluster-md-kmp-rt-4.4.74-7.10.1, cluster-network-kmp-rt-4.4.74-7.10.1, …), 717 product×package rows across 94 product lines (HPE Helion OpenStack 8, SUSE CaaS Platform 4.0, … (94 product lines)): Fixed 441, Known Not Affected 276.

Description:

The compat IPT_SO_SET_REPLACE and IP6T_SO_SET_REPLACE setsockopt implementations in the netfilter subsystem in the Linux kernel before 4.6.3 allow local users to gain privileges or cause a denial of service (memory corruption) by leveraging in-container root access to provide a crafted offset value that triggers an unintended decrement.

cvelogic Threat Intelligence