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.