Bug 1383265 (IP6T_SO_SET_REPLACE) - CVE-2016-4997 compat IP6T_SO_SET_REPLACE setsockopt
Summary: CVE-2016-4997 compat IP6T_SO_SET_REPLACE setsockopt
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Status: CLOSED DUPLICATE of bug 1349722
Alias: IP6T_SO_SET_REPLACE
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
unspecified
high
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2016-10-10 10:18 UTC by Qian Zhang
Modified: 2016-10-11 02:47 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2016-10-10 11:01:51 UTC
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Description Qian Zhang 2016-10-10 10:18:03 UTC 
The IPv6 netfilter subsystem in the Linux kernel through 4.6.2 does not validate certain offset fields,
which allows local users to escalade privileges via an IP6T_SO_SET_REPLACE compat setsockopt call

The page
https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2016-4997
has updated their Description and References sections

Discussion on oss-sec:
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/09/29/10
Comment 1 Petr Matousek 2016-10-10 11:01:51 UTC 

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 1349722 ***
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