CVE-2016-8645
- State
- Published
- Severity
- Not scored
- Published
- Nov 28, 2016
- Updated
- Aug 6, 2024
- Reserved
- Oct 12, 2016
Description
The TCP stack in the Linux kernel before 4.8.10 mishandles skb truncation, which allows local users to cause a denial of service (system crash) via a crafted application that makes sendto system calls, related to net/ipv4/tcp_ipv4.c and net/ipv6/tcp_ipv6.c.
Scores
The record has no CVSS score.
Weaknesses
The record names no weakness.
Affected Products
| Product | Versions |
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n/an/a |
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References
- [oss-security] 20161130 Re: CVE-2016-8645: linux kernel: net: a BUG() statement can be hit in net/ipv4/tcp_input.cmailing-list
- RHSA-2017:2669vendor-advisory
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1393904
- 94264vdb-entry
- 1037285vdb-entry
- RHSA-2017:2077vendor-advisory
- RHSA-2017:1842vendor-advisory
- http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v4.x/ChangeLog-4.8.10
- [oss-security] 20161111 CVE-2016-8645: linux kernel: net: a BUG() statement can be hit in net/ipv4/tcp_input.cmailing-list
- http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=ac6e780070e30e4c35bd395acfe9191e6268bdd3
- https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/ac6e780070e30e4c35bd395acfe9191e6268bdd3
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