vulnerability

SUSE: CVE-2016-8666: SUSE Linux Security Advisory

Severity
8
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C)
Published
Oct 16, 2016
Added
Oct 21, 2016
Modified
Feb 4, 2022

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.

Solutions

suse-upgrade-cluster-md-kmp-defaultsuse-upgrade-cluster-network-kmp-defaultsuse-upgrade-dlm-kmp-defaultsuse-upgrade-gfs2-kmp-defaultsuse-upgrade-kernel-defaultsuse-upgrade-kernel-docssuse-upgrade-kernel-ec2suse-upgrade-kernel-ec2-develsuse-upgrade-kernel-ec2-extrasuse-upgrade-kernel-obs-buildsuse-upgrade-ocfs2-kmp-default

References

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