vulnerability

Debian: CVE-2016-8666: linux -- security update

Severity
8
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C)
Published
Oct 16, 2016
Added
Jul 30, 2024
Modified
Mar 30, 2026

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.

Solution

debian-upgrade-linux
Title
Rapid7 Labs

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