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Tracker / CVE-2016-8666

CVE-2016-8666

High 7.5

The IP stack in the Linux kernel before 4.6 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (stack consumption and panic) or possibly have unspecified other impact by triggering use of the GRO path for packets with tunnel stacking, as demonstrated by interleaved IPv4 headers and GRE headers, a related issue to CVE-2016-7039.

Affected products and versions

linux linux_kernel · 3.14 → 3.16.35
linux linux_kernel · 3.17 → 3.18.47
linux linux_kernel · 3.19 → 4.1.38
linux linux_kernel · 4.2 → 4.4.29
linux linux_kernel · 4.5 → 4.6

Analysis

This page is not indexable yet.Until it carries original analysis — what it actually exposes, how to check in two minutes whether a system was touched, what to do if it was — the page stays noindex. The database decides that, not the template.

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