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CVE-2016-8666

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 oth…

Impact

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.

Affected products

VendorProductAffected versions
LinuxLinux Kernel
from 3.14 before 3.16.35
from 3.17 before 3.18.47
from 3.19 before 4.1.38
from 4.2 before 4.4.29
from 4.5 before 4.6

Weakness classification

CWE-400

References