CVE-2016-3134

high
Published 2016-04-27 ยท Modified 2026-05-06
CVSS v3
8.4
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS v4 NEW
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not yet in upstream
VIR risk
8.4

Description

The netfilter subsystem in the Linux kernel through 4.5.2 does not validate certain offset fields, which allows local users to gain privileges or cause a denial of service (heap memory corruption) via an IPT_SO_SET_REPLACE setsockopt call.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
80%
Patch ETA
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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

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OS impact

OSVersionStatusFixed in
suse slesaffected
debian debianbookwormfixed4.5.1-1
debian debianbullseyefixed4.5.1-1
debian debianforkyfixed4.5.1-1
debian debiansidfixed4.5.1-1
debian debiantrixiefixed4.5.1-1
suse suse11.0affected
suse suse12.0affected
linux linux-kernelaffected

Application impact

References

CWEs

CWE-119

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.