Denial of Service Vulnerability in Linux Kernel 4.7-rc6 via IPv6 Socket Operations

CVE-2016-6162 · MEDIUM Severity

AV:L/AC:L/AU:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

net/core/skbuff.c in the Linux kernel 4.7-rc6 allows local users to cause a denial of service (panic) or possibly have unspecified other impact via certain IPv6 socket operations.

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