CVEvulnerability
CVE-2016-6162
7.8 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2016-08-06
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
- 7.8 HIGH — CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 4.6 MEDIUM — AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
- Weaknesses
- CWE-20
Description
net/core/skbuff.c in the Linux kernel 4.7-rc6 allows local users to cause a denial of service (panic) or possibly have unspecified other impact via certain IPv6 socket operations.
Affected configurations
• linux linux kernel 4.7
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-20 Improper Input Validation weakness
References
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/07/05/8 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1353538 Issue Tracking
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/07/05/8 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1353538 Issue Tracking