CVEvulnerability
CVE-2016-2070
7.5 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2016-05-02
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 7.5 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 7.8 HIGH — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C
- Weaknesses
- CWE-189
Description
The tcp_cwnd_reduction function in net/ipv4/tcp_input.c in the Linux kernel before 4.3.5 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (divide-by-zero error and system crash) via crafted TCP traffic.
Affected configurations
• linux linux kernel (>= 4.3 < 4.3.5)
Related
Weakness · not in database (1)
References
- http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=8b8a321ff72c785ed5e8b4cf6eda20b35d427390 Vendor Advisory
- http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v4.x/ChangeLog-4.3.5 Vendor Advisory
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/01/25/5 Mailing List
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1302219 Issue Tracking
- https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/8b8a321ff72c785ed5e8b4cf6eda20b35d427390 Patch, Vendor Advisory
- http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=8b8a321ff72c785ed5e8b4cf6eda20b35d427390 Vendor Advisory
- http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v4.x/ChangeLog-4.3.5 Vendor Advisory
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/01/25/5 Mailing List
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1302219 Issue Tracking
- https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/8b8a321ff72c785ed5e8b4cf6eda20b35d427390 Patch, Vendor Advisory