CVE Catalog

CVE-2016-9755

High
Published: Translated: NVD NIST

Summary

The netfilter subsystem in the Linux kernel before 4.9 mishandles IPv6 reassembly, allowing local users to cause denial of service through integer overflow, out-of-bounds write, and GPF. It may also lead to unspecified other impacts.

Risk Assessment

The organization may be exposed to denial of service attacks, potentially leading to system downtime and other unspecified security consequences.

Recommendation

It is recommended to update the Linux kernel to version 4.9 or later to mitigate this vulnerability.

Related vulnerabilities

Original NVD description (English source)

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.

Vulnerability data from NVD (NIST) · CISA KEV · EPSS