CVEvulnerability

CVE-2016-3156

5.5 MEDIUM Published 2016-04-27 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2016-04-27
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
5.5 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
2.1 LOW — AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
Weaknesses
CWE-399

Description

The IPv4 implementation in the Linux kernel before 4.5.2 mishandles destruction of device objects, which allows guest OS users to cause a denial of service (host OS networking outage) by arranging for a large number of IP addresses.

Affected configurations

• novell suse linux enterprise software development kit 11.0 • novell suse linux enterprise software development kit 12.0 • novell suse linux enterprise debuginfo 11.0 • novell suse linux enterprise desktop 12.0 • novell suse linux enterprise live patching 12.0 • novell suse linux enterprise module for public cloud 12.0 • novell suse linux enterprise real time extension 11.0 • novell suse linux enterprise real time extension 12.0 • novell suse linux enterprise server 11.0 • novell suse linux enterprise server 12.0 • novell suse linux enterprise workstation extension 12.0 • canonical ubuntu linux 12.04 • linux linux kernel (<= 4.5.1)

Related

Weakness · not in database (1)

References