CVE-2017-7397

State: Published
Severity: Not scored
Published: Apr 3, 2017
Updated: Aug 5, 2024
Reserved: Mar 31, 2017

Description

BackBox Linux 4.6 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (ksoftirqd CPU consumption) via a flood of packets with Martian source IP addresses (as defined in RFC 1812 section 5.3.7). This product enables net.ipv4.conf.all.log_martians by default. NOTE: the vendor reports "It has been proved that this vulnerability has no foundation and it is totally fake and based on false assumptions.

Scores

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Weaknesses

The record names no weakness.

Affected Products

Product	Versions
n/an/a	n/aAffected

References

http://www.exploitalert.com/view-details.html?id=26361
https://backbox.org/portal/blog/false-cve-backbox-46-unmasked
https://cxsecurity.com/issue/WLB-2017040001
https://forum.backbox.org/security-advisories/waiting-verification-backbox-os-denial-of-service/msg10218
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