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CVE-2016-8645

5.5 mediumEPSS 0.5%

Medium (5.5) in linux linux kernel. EPSS 0.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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.

Severity

CVSS 3.0

5.5 medium
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
EPSS
0.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 40% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
CWE
CWE-284
Published
Modified
Record from
the NVD, synced

Affected

References

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