CVE-2016-9793

A flaw was found in the Linux kernel's implementation of setsockopt for the SO_{SND|RCV}BUFFORCE setsockopt() system call. Users with non-namespace CAP_NET_ADMIN are able to trigger this call and create a situation in which the sockets sendbuff data size could be negative. This could adversely affect memory allocations and create situations where the system could crash or cause memory corruption.

This issue does not affect the kernels as shipping with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 and 6. This issue does affect kernels 7, MRG-2 and realtime kernels and plans to be fixed in a future update.

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