{"id":"CVE-2016-7917","details":"The nfnetlink_rcv_batch 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 CAP_NET_ADMIN capability.","modified":"2026-03-14T09:20:34.929741Z","published":"2016-11-16T05:59:11.970Z","related":["MGASA-2017-0136","MGASA-2017-0147","MGASA-2017-0148","SUSE-SU-2017:0181-1"],"references":[{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"http://source.android.com/security/bulletin/2016-11-01.html"},{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/94147"},{"type":"FIX","url":"http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=c58d6c93680f28ac58984af61d0a7ebf4319c241"},{"type":"FIX","url":"https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/c58d6c93680f28ac58984af61d0a7ebf4319c241"}],"affected":[{"database_specific":{"unresolved_ranges":[{"events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"last_affected":"4.4.32"}]}],"source":"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2016-7917.json"}}],"schema_version":"1.7.5","severity":[{"type":"CVSS_V3","score":"CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N"}]}