Published: 27/04/2016 Updated: 12/09/2023

CVSS v2 Base Score: 2.1 | Impact Score: 2.9 | Exploitability Score: 3.9

CVSS v3 Base Score: 5.5 | Impact Score: 3.6 | Exploitability Score: 1.8

VMScore: 188

Vector: AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

The IPv4 implementation in the Linux kernel prior to 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.

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Synopsis Important: kernel security, bug fix, and enhancement update Type/Severity Security Advisory: Important Topic An update for kernel is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Important A Common Vulnerability Scoring S ...

Several vulnerabilities have been discovered in the Linux kernel that may lead to a privilege escalation, denial of service or information leaks CVE-2015-7515, CVE-2016-2184, CVE-2016-2185, CVE-2016-2186, CVE-2016-2187, CVE-2016-3136, CVE-2016-3137, CVE-2016-3138, CVE-2016-3140 Ralf Spenneberg of OpenSource Sec ...

An integer overflow vulnerability was found in xt_alloc_table_info, which on 32-bit systems can lead to small structure allocation and a copy_from_user based heap corruption (CVE-2016-3135) In the mark_source_chains function (net/ipv4/netfilter/ip_tablesc) it is possible for a user-supplied ipt_entry structure to have a large next_offset field T ...

A security flaw was found in the Linux kernel's networking subsystem that destroying the network interface with huge number of ipv4 addresses assigned keeps "rtnl_lock" spinlock for a very long time (up to hour) This blocks many network-related operations, including creation of new incoming ssh connections The problem is especially important for ...

Several security issues were fixed in the kernel ...

CWE-399 http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/03/15/3 http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=fbd40ea0180a2d328c5adc61414dc8bab9335ce2 https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/fbd40ea0180a2d328c5adc61414dc8bab9335ce2 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1318172 http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2997-1 http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2996-1 http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-06/msg00052.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-06/msg00054.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-06/msg00059.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-07/msg00005.html http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/linuxbulletinjul2016-3090544.html http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/ovmbulletinoct2016-3090547.html http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3607 http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-08/msg00038.html http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/84428 http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-05/msg00060.html http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2968-1 http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2969-1 http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2971-1 http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2971-2 http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2970-1 http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2971-3 http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2968-2 http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-04/msg00019.html http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2584.html http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2574.html https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016:2574 https://nvd.nist.gov https://usn.ubuntu.com/2970-1/https://www.debian.org/security/./dsa-3607

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