Published: 28/11/2016 Updated: 12/02/2023

CVSS v2 Base Score: 4.9 | Impact Score: 6.9 | Exploitability Score: 3.9

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

VMScore: 436

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

The TCP stack in the Linux kernel prior to 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.

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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 ...

Debian Bug report logs - #770492 linux-image-3160-4-686-pae: chown removes securitycapability xattr on other users' files (CVE-2015-1350) Package: src:linux; Maintainer for src:linux is Debian Kernel Team <debian-kernel@listsdebianorg>; Affects: wireshark-common, iputils-ping, fping Reported by: Ben Harris <bjh21@cama ...

Several security issues were fixed in the kernel ...

The system could be made to crash under certain conditions ...

CVE-2016-8645 kernel: a BUG() statement can be hit in net/ipv4/tcp_inputcIt was discovered that the Linux kernel since 36-rc1 with netipv4tcp_fastopen; set to 1 can hit BUG() statement in tcp_collapse() function after making a number of certain syscalls leading to a possible system crash CVE-2016-8655 kernel: Race condition in packet_set_ring ...

It was discovered that the Linux kernel since 36-rc1 with 'netipv4tcp_fastopen' set to 1 can hit BUG() statement in tcp_collapse() function after making a number of certain syscalls leading to a possible system crash ...

CWE-284 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1393904 http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v4.x/ChangeLog-4.8.10 https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/ac6e780070e30e4c35bd395acfe9191e6268bdd3 http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=ac6e780070e30e4c35bd395acfe9191e6268bdd3 http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/11/11/3 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/94264 http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/11/30/3 http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1037285 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:2669 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:2077 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:1842 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:1842 https://nvd.nist.gov https://usn.ubuntu.com/3161-2/

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