Tracker / CVE-2016-2383
CVE-2016-2383
Medium 5.5
The adjust_branches function in kernel/bpf/verifier.c in the Linux kernel before 4.5 does not consider the delta in the backward-jump case, which allows local users to obtain sensitive information from kernel memory by creating a packet filter and then loading crafted BPF instructions.
Affected products and versions
| canonical | ubuntu_linux |
|---|---|
| linux | linux_kernel |
| linux | linux_kernel · … → 4.5.0 |
| opensuse | leap |
Analysis
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