Vulnerability CVE-2017-7397
Published: 2017-04-03

Description:
** DISPUTED ** 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."

See advisories in our WLB2 database:
Topic
Author
Date
Med.
BackBox OS Denial Of Service(CPU Consumption)
Hosein Askari(Fa...
01.04.2017

Type:

CWE-400

 (Uncontrolled Resource Consumption ('Resource Exhaustion'))

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

CVSS Base Score
Impact Subscore
Exploitability Subscore
5/10
2.9/10
10/10
Exploit range
Attack complexity
Authentication
Remote
Low
No required
Confidentiality impact
Integrity impact
Availability impact
None
None
Partial
Affected software
Backbox -> Backbox linux 

 References:
http://www.exploitalert.com/view-details.html?id=26361
https://backbox.org/portal/blog/false-cve-backbox-46-unmasked
https://cxsecurity.com/issue/WLB-2017040001
https://forum.backbox.org/security-advisories/waiting-verification-backbox-os-denial-of-service/msg10218
https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/41781/
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