CVE-2016-8645

CVE Details

Release Date:	2016-11-10
Impact:	Moderate	What is this?

Description

The TCP stack in the Linux kernel before 4.8.10 mishandles skbtruncation, 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.

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NOTE: The following CVSS metrics and score provided are preliminary and subject to review.

CVSS v2 metrics

Base Score:	4.9
Vector String:	AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C
Version:	2.0
Attack Vector:	Local
Attack Complexity:	Low
Authentication:	None
Confidentiality Impact:	None
Integrity Impact:	None
Availability Impact:	Complete

Errata information

Platform	Errata	Release Date
Oracle Linux version 5 (kernel-uek)	ELSA-2017-3535	2017-03-31
Oracle Linux version 6 (dtrace-modules-3.8.13-118.17.4.el6uek)	ELSA-2017-3534	2017-03-31
Oracle Linux version 6 (dtrace-modules-4.1.12-61.1.33.el6uek)	ELSA-2017-3533	2017-03-31
Oracle Linux version 6 (kernel-uek)	ELSA-2017-3533	2017-03-31
Oracle Linux version 6 (kernel-uek)	ELSA-2017-3534	2017-03-31
Oracle Linux version 6 (kernel-uek)	ELSA-2017-3535	2017-03-31
Oracle Linux version 7 (dtrace-modules-3.8.13-118.17.4.el7uek)	ELSA-2017-3534	2017-03-31
Oracle Linux version 7 (dtrace-modules-4.1.12-61.1.33.el7uek)	ELSA-2017-3533	2017-03-31
Oracle Linux version 7 (kernel)	ELSA-2017-1842	2017-08-07
Oracle Linux version 7 (kernel)	ELSA-2017-1842-1	2017-08-15
Oracle Linux version 7 (kernel-uek)	ELSA-2017-3533	2017-03-31
Oracle Linux version 7 (kernel-uek)	ELSA-2017-3534	2017-03-31
Oracle VM version 3.2 (kernel-uek)	OVMSA-2017-0058	2017-03-31
Oracle VM version 3.3 (kernel-uek)	OVMSA-2017-0057	2017-03-31
Oracle VM version 3.4 (kernel-uek)	OVMSA-2017-0056	2017-03-31