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CVE-2016-8645
MEDIUM · CVSS 5.5
EPSS exploitation probability: 0%
Published 2016-11-28T03:59:07.767 · Last modified 2026-06-17T00:54:43.100

Summary

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

Affected products

linux — linux_kernel

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References

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