CVE-2016-8645

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.

References

https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/ac6e780070e30e4c35bd395acfe9191e6268bdd3

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1393904

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:2669

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:2077

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:1842

http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1037285

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/94264

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/11/30/3

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/11/11/3

http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v4.x/ChangeLog-4.8.10

http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=ac6e780070e30e4c35bd395acfe9191e6268bdd3

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Risk Information

CVSS v2

CVSS v3