CVE-2016-9755 in Kernelinfo

Summary

The netfilter subsystem in the Linux kernel before 4.9 mishandles IPv6 reassembly, which allows local users to cause a denial of service (integer overflow, out-of-bounds write, and GPF) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted application that makes socket, connect, and writev system calls, related to net/ipv6/netfilter/nf_conntrack_reasm.c and net/ipv6/netfilter/nf_defrag_ipv6_hooks.c.

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Reservation

12/01/2016

Disclosure

12/28/2016

CPE

ready

CVSS

6.5

EPSS

0.00051

Activities

Very Low

Sources