CVEvulnerability
CVE-2017-7397
7.5 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2017-04-03
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
- 7.5 HIGH — CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 5.0 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
- Weaknesses
- CWE-400
Description
BackBox Linux 4.6 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (ksoftirqd CPU consumption) via a flood of packets with Martian source IP addresses (as defined in RFC 1812 section 5.3.7). This product enables net.ipv4.conf.all.log_martians by default. NOTE: the vendor reports "It has been proved that this vulnerability has no foundation and it is totally fake and based on false assumptions.
Affected configurations
• backbox backbox linux 4.6
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-400 Uncontrolled Resource Consumption weakness
References
- http://www.exploitalert.com/view-details.html?id=26361 Exploit, Third Party Advisory
- https://backbox.org/portal/blog/false-cve-backbox-46-unmasked Vendor Advisory
- https://cxsecurity.com/issue/WLB-2017040001 Exploit, Third Party Advisory
- https://forum.backbox.org/security-advisories/waiting-verification-backbox-os-denial-of-service/msg10218 Vendor Advisory
- https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/41781/ Exploit, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- http://www.exploitalert.com/view-details.html?id=26361 Exploit, Third Party Advisory
- https://backbox.org/portal/blog/false-cve-backbox-46-unmasked Vendor Advisory
- https://cxsecurity.com/issue/WLB-2017040001 Exploit, Third Party Advisory
- https://forum.backbox.org/security-advisories/waiting-verification-backbox-os-denial-of-service/msg10218 Vendor Advisory
- https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/41781/ Exploit, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry