CVE-2016-7039
- State
- Published
- Severity
- Not scored
- Published
- Oct 16, 2016
- Updated
- Aug 6, 2024
- Reserved
- Aug 23, 2016
Description
The IP stack in the Linux kernel through 4.8.2 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 large crafted packets, as demonstrated by packets that contain only VLAN headers, a related issue to CVE-2016-8666.
Scores
The record has no CVSS score.
Weaknesses
The record names no weakness.
Affected Products
| Product | Versions |
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References
- RHSA-2016:2107vendor-advisory
- RHSA-2017:0372vendor-advisory
- https://bto.bluecoat.com/security-advisory/sa134
- [oss-security] 20161010 CVE-2016-7039 Kernel: net: unbounded recursion in the vlan GRO processingmailing-list
- http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/linuxbulletinoct2016-3090545.html
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1375944
- https://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/680412/
- RHSA-2016:2047vendor-advisory
- http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/ovmbulletinoct2016-3090547.html
- RHSA-2016:2110vendor-advisory
- 93476vdb-entry
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