Security Advisory

CVE-2016-7039

CVE vulnerability detail - eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2016-10-16 21:00:00
Last updated 2024-08-06 01:50:46
Assigner mitre
CVSS score not scored
State PUBLISHED

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.