CVE-2016-9793 — CVE & Security Advisory Radar

🎯 CVE-2016-9793 LOW 3.1 🔥 EPSS 1.6% 🧪 PoC 🇪🇺 EUVD

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CVE-2016-9793 | The sock_setsockopt function in net/core/sock.c in the Linux kernel before 4.8.14 mishandles negative values of sk_sndbuf and sk_rcvbuf, which allows local users to cause a denial of service (memory corruption and system crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact by leveraging the CAP_NET_ADMIN capability for a crafted setsockopt system call with the (1) SO_SNDBUFFORCE or (2) SO_RCVBUFFORCE option.

The sock_setsockopt function in net/core/sock.c in the Linux kernel before 4.8.14 mishandles negative values of sk_sndbuf and sk_rcvbuf, which allows local users to cause a denial of service (memory corruption and system crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact by leveraging the CAP_NET_ADMIN capability for a crafted setsockopt system call with the (1) SO_SNDBUFFORCE or (2) SO_RCVBUFFORCE option.

Klassifikation & Betroffenheit:

n/a n/a n/alinux linux_kernel *

Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer 🎯 High

The product performs operations on a memory buffer, but it reads from or writes to a memory location outside the buffer's intended boundary. This may result in read or write operations on unexpected memory locations that could be linked to other variables, data structures, or internal program data.

🛡️ Empfohlene Mitigation: Use a language that does not allow this weakness to occur or provides constructs that make this weakness easier to avoid. For example, many languages that perform their own memory management, such as Java and Perl, are not subject to buffer overflows. Other languages, such as Ada and C#, typically provide overflow prot…

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⚔️ Typische Angriffsmuster (CAPEC):

CAPEC-10 · Buffer Overflow via Environment Variable… (High) CAPEC-14 · Client-side Injection-induced Buffer Ove… (High) CAPEC-24 · Filter Failure through Buffer Overflow (High) CAPEC-42 · MIME Conversion (High) CAPEC-44 · Overflow Binary Resource File (Very High) CAPEC-45 · Buffer Overflow via Symbolic Links (High) CAPEC-100 · Overflow Buffers (Very High) CAPEC-123 · Buffer Manipulation (Very High)

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🧪 Exploit-Evidenz: EDB-41995 · Linux Kernel 3.11 < 4.8 0 - 'SO_SNDBUFFORCE' / 'SO_RCVBUFFORCE' Local

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Reserviert 2016

Veröffentlicht 12/2016

Heute 13.09.

Veröffentlicht:28.12.2016

Aktualisiert:17.06.2026 00:56

Assigner (CNA):mitre

EUVD-ID:EUVD-2016-10594

Quellen: 🇪🇺 EUVD-Datenbank (ENISA) + 🇺🇸 NVD-Anreicherung · 24-h-Cache

CWE-119: Memory Corruption ✓ Offizieller Patch / Advisory verfügbar

💡 Gegenmaßnahme: Sicherheits-Update des Herstellers zeitnah einspielen und Netzwerksegmentierung prüfen.

Tier	2026-08-29	2026-09-12
≥90 %	4	0
≥50 %	4	0
≥10 %	3	0
<10 %	304	300

3.1 LOW

🇪🇺 EUVD

EPSS

1.6%

CVE-2016-9793 💻 Lokal 🔓 Keine Authentifizierung nötig

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CVE-2016-9793 | The sock_setsockopt function in net/core/sock.c in the Linux kernel before 4.8.14 mishandles negative values of sk_sndbuf and sk_rcvbuf, which allows local users to cause a denial of service (memory corruption and system crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact by leveraging the CAP_NET_ADMIN capability for a crafted setsockopt system call with the (1) SO_SNDBUFFORCE or (2) SO_RCVBUFFORCE option.

CWE-119: Memory Corruption ✓ Offizieller Patch / Advisory verfügbar

💡 Gegenmaßnahme: Sicherheits-Update des Herstellers zeitnah einspielen und Netzwerksegmentierung prüfen.

28.12.2016

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