CVE-2016-8666 Information

Description

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.

CVSS Vector

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Reference

http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=fac8e0f579695a3ecbc4d3cac369139d7f819971 http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2047.html http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2107.html http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2110.html http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017-0004.html http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/10/13/11 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/93562 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:0372 https://bto.bluecoat.com/security-advisory/sa134 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1384991 https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1001486 https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/fac8e0f579695a3ecbc4d3cac369139d7f819971

Attack Complexity

LOW

Privileges Required

NONE

User Interaction Required

NONE

Scope

NONE

Confidentiality Impact

UNCHANGED

Integrity Impact

NONE

Availability Impact

NONE

Base Score

HIGH

Base Severity

7.5