Vulnerability CVE-2016-7039
Published: 2016-10-16

Description:
The IP stack in the Linux kernel through 4.8.2 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 large crafted packets, as demonstrated by packets that contain only VLAN headers, a related issue to CVE-2016-8666.

See advisories in our WLB2 database:
Topic
Author
Date
Med.
Linux Kernel net unbounded recursion in the vlan GRO processing
Adam Mariš
10.10.2016

Type:

CWE-399

 (Resource Management Errors)

CVSS2 => (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C)

CVSS Base Score
Impact Subscore
Exploitability Subscore
7.8/10
6.9/10
10/10
Exploit range
Attack complexity
Authentication
Remote
Low
No required
Confidentiality impact
Integrity impact
Availability impact
None
None
Complete
Affected software
Oracle -> Linux 
Oracle -> Vm server 
Linux -> Linux kernel 

 References:
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2047.html
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2107.html
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2110.html
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/10/10/15
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/linuxbulletinoct2016-3090545.html
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/ovmbulletinoct2016-3090547.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/93476
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:0372
https://bto.bluecoat.com/security-advisory/sa134
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1375944
https://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/680412/
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