CVEvulnerability
CVE-2016-8645
5.5 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2016-11-28
- 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])
- 4.9 MEDIUM — AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C
- Weaknesses
- CWE-284
Description
The TCP stack in the Linux kernel before 4.8.10 mishandles skb truncation, which allows local users to cause a denial of service (system crash) via a crafted application that makes sendto system calls, related to net/ipv4/tcp_ipv4.c and net/ipv6/tcp_ipv6.c.
Affected configurations
• linux linux kernel (<= 4.8.9)
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-284 Improper Access Control weakness
References
- http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=ac6e780070e30e4c35bd395acfe9191e6268bdd3 Issue Tracking, Patch, Vendor Advisory
- http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v4.x/ChangeLog-4.8.10 Release Notes
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/11/11/3 Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/11/30/3 www.openwall.com
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/94264 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1037285 www.securitytracker.com
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:1842 access.redhat.com
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:2077 access.redhat.com
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:2669 access.redhat.com
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1393904 Issue Tracking
- https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/ac6e780070e30e4c35bd395acfe9191e6268bdd3 Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=ac6e780070e30e4c35bd395acfe9191e6268bdd3 Issue Tracking, Patch, Vendor Advisory
- http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v4.x/ChangeLog-4.8.10 Release Notes
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/11/11/3 Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/11/30/3 www.openwall.com
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/94264 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1037285 www.securitytracker.com
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:1842 access.redhat.com
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:2077 access.redhat.com
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:2669 access.redhat.com
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1393904 Issue Tracking
- https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/ac6e780070e30e4c35bd395acfe9191e6268bdd3 Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory