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CVE-2016-7039
Published: Oct 16, 2016
Modified: Aug 6, 2024
PUBLISHED
Description
The IP stack in the Linux kernel through 4.8.2 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 large crafted packets, as demonstrated by packets that contain only VLAN headers, a related issue to CVE-2016-8666.
| Vendor | Product | Versions |
|---|---|---|
n/a | n/a | affected n/a |
References
RHSA-2016:2107
vendor-advisory
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RHSA-2017:0372
vendor-advisory
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https://bto.bluecoat.com/security-advisory/sa134
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[oss-security] 20161010 CVE-2016-7039 Kernel: net: unbounded recursion in the vlan GRO processing
mailing-list
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https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1375944
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https://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/680412/
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RHSA-2016:2047
vendor-advisory
x_refsource_REDHAT
RHSA-2016:2110
vendor-advisory
x_refsource_REDHAT
93476
vdb-entry
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