CVEvulnerability

CVE-2016-8666

7.5 HIGH Published 2016-10-16 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2016-10-16
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-400

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.

Affected configurations

• linux linux kernel (>= 3.14 < 3.16.35) • linux linux kernel (>= 3.17 < 3.18.47) • linux linux kernel (>= 3.19 < 4.1.38) • linux linux kernel (>= 4.2 < 4.4.29) • linux linux kernel (>= 4.5 < 4.6)

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-400 Uncontrolled Resource Consumption weakness

References