CVE-2016-2383

lowpriority · track · 22EPSS 0.004 · 30 %ileDEEUUS

grimoire priorityP3 · Track

Exploitable?

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no known exploitation

Likely / severe?

0.37% (30th) EPSS

CVSS 2.1 · low

Is it mine?

18 products

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Who says so?

4 sources

cnnvd · enisa_euvd · cert_bund · nvd

EPSS · scored 2026-10-22

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.

cvss

Technical severity, 0–10. One row per scoring source.

5.5

010

base score 0–10 · higher = more severe · hover a vector to decode⚠ sources disagree · low–medium · 2.1–5.5

v2.02.1lowAV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:Nprimary · NVD / NIST USexploitability 3.9 · impact 2.9

v3.15.5mediumCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:Nprimary · NVD / NIST USexploitability 1.8 · impact 3.6

v3.15.1mediumCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N/E:Usecondary · CVSS-BT (t0sche)

weaknesses

The CWE weakness classes this flaw belongs to.

CWE-200USLLM-inferred

affected products (18)

Products and version ranges known to be affected.

Debian Linux Jessie (8.0)all versionscert_bundDEcpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:8.0
Debian Linux Wheezy (7.0)all versionscert_bundDEcpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:7.0
Open Source Linux Kernelall versionscert_bundDEcpe:/o:linux:linux_kernel:-
Oracle Linuxall versionscert_bundDEcpe:/o:oracle:linux:-
Red Hat Enterprise Linuxall versionscert_bundDEcpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:-
SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktopall versionscert_bundDEcpe:/o:suse:linux_enterprise_desktop:-
SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 12all versionscert_bundDEcpe:/o:suse:linux_enterprise_desktop:12
SUSE Linux Enterprise Serverall versionscert_bundDEcpe:/o:suse:linux_enterprise_server:-
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12all versionscert_bundDEcpe:/o:suse:linux_enterprise_server:12
Ubuntu Linuxall versionscert_bundDEcpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:-
Ubuntu Linux 14.04 LTSall versionscert_bundDEcpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:14.04:-:lts
Ubuntu Linux 15.10all versionscert_bundDEcpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:15.10
n/a n/a≤ n/aenisa_euvdEU
canonical ubuntu linux= 14.04nvdUScpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
canonical ubuntu linux= 15.10nvdUScpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
linux linux kernel< 4.5.0nvdUScpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
linux linux kernel= 4.5.0nvdUScpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
opensuse leap= 42.1nvdUScpe:2.3:o:opensuse:leap:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

advisories (1)

Vendor and ecosystem advisories describing this.

WID-SEC-W-2024-0152Linux Kernel: Mehrere SchwachstellenDeutsch2016-02-14csaf · cert_bundDE
Ein entfernter, anonymer Angreifer kann mehrere Schwachstellen in Linux Kernel ausnutzen, um einen Denial of Service Angriff durchzuführen oder um möglicherweise beliebigen Code auszuführen.

also known as (3)

Other names and identifiers for this entity.

sources

Which sources assert this record, and when.

cnnvd enisa_euvd cert_bund nvd NVD CVE.org MITRE

published 2016-04-27modified 2026-06-17

references (24)

External citations — patches, advisories, analysis.

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