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CVE-2016-3134

Public on 2016-04-27
Modified on 2017-01-19
Description

A security flaw was found in the Linux kernel in the mark_source_chains() function in "net/ipv4/netfilter/ip_tables.c". It is possible for a user-supplied "ipt_entry" structure to have a large "next_offset" field. This field is not bounds checked prior to writing to a counter value at the supplied offset.

Severity
Important
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CVSS v3 Base Score
6.4
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Affected Packages

Platform Package Release Date Advisory
Amazon Linux 1 kernel 2016-04-27 16:15 ALAS-2016-694

CVSS Scores

Score Type Score Vector
Amazon Linux CVSSv2 6.2 AV:L/AC:H/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
Amazon Linux CVSSv3 6.4 CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:L/A:H
NVD CVSSv2 7.2 AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
NVD CVSSv3 8.4 CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H