CVE-2016-9755
- State
- Published
- Severity
- Not scored
- Published
- Dec 28, 2016
- Updated
- Aug 6, 2024
- Reserved
- Dec 1, 2016
Description
The netfilter subsystem in the Linux kernel before 4.9 mishandles IPv6 reassembly, which allows local users to cause a denial of service (integer overflow, out-of-bounds write, and GPF) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted application that makes socket, connect, and writev system calls, related to net/ipv6/netfilter/nf_conntrack_reasm.c and net/ipv6/netfilter/nf_defrag_ipv6_hooks.c.
Scores
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Weaknesses
The record names no weakness.
Affected Products
| Product | Versions |
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n/an/a |
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References
- 94626vdb-entry
- https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/9b57da0630c9fd36ed7a20fc0f98dc82cc0777fa
- [oss-security] 20161201 CVE Request: Linux: net: out-of-bounds due do a signedness issue when defragging ipv6mailing-list
- http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=9b57da0630c9fd36ed7a20fc0f98dc82cc0777fa
- https://groups.google.com/forum/#%21topic/syzkaller/GFbGpX7nTEo
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1400904
- [netdev] 20161130 [PATCH 10/11] netfilter: ipv6: nf_defrag: drop mangled skb on ream errormailing-list
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