CVE-2016-8666

Summary

The IP stack in the Linux kernel before 4.6 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 packets with tunnel stacking, as demonstrated by interleaved IPv4 headers and GRE headers, a related issue to CVE-2016-7039.

Affected Software

Weaknesses

• n/a

ADP Enrichment

CVE Program Container

Additional References

• http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2107.html
• https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:0372
• https://bto.bluecoat.com/security-advisory/sa134
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/93562
• http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=fac8e0f579695a3ecbc4d3cac369139d7f819971
• http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2047.html
• http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2110.html
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/10/13/11
• https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/fac8e0f579695a3ecbc4d3cac369139d7f819971
• http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017-0004.html
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1384991
• https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1001486

References

• http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2107.html
• https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:0372
• https://bto.bluecoat.com/security-advisory/sa134
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/93562
• http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=fac8e0f579695a3ecbc4d3cac369139d7f819971
• http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2047.html
• http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2110.html
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/10/13/11
• https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/fac8e0f579695a3ecbc4d3cac369139d7f819971
• http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017-0004.html
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1384991
• https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1001486

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