cve-2016-8666
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2016-10-16 21:00
Modified
2024-08-06 02:27
Severity ?
Summary
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.
References
security@opentext.comhttp://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=fac8e0f579695a3ecbc4d3cac369139d7f819971
security@opentext.comhttp://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2047.html
security@opentext.comhttp://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2107.html
security@opentext.comhttp://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2110.html
security@opentext.comhttp://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017-0004.html
security@opentext.comhttp://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/10/13/11
security@opentext.comhttp://www.securityfocus.com/bid/93562
security@opentext.comhttps://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:0372
security@opentext.comhttps://bto.bluecoat.com/security-advisory/sa134
security@opentext.comhttps://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1384991
security@opentext.comhttps://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1001486
security@opentext.comhttps://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/fac8e0f579695a3ecbc4d3cac369139d7f819971
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=fac8e0f579695a3ecbc4d3cac369139d7f819971
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af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/10/13/11
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/93562
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:0372
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://bto.bluecoat.com/security-advisory/sa134
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1384991
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1001486
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/fac8e0f579695a3ecbc4d3cac369139d7f819971
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