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CVE-2016-3156
- Severity: medium (CVSS 5.5 v3.0)
- Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
- EPSS: 0.6% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
- Public exploit or detection template: none known
- Published: 2016-04-27 · updated 2026-06-17
- Weakness: CWE-399
Description
The IPv4 implementation in the Linux kernel before 4.5.2 mishandles destruction of device objects, which allows guest OS users to cause a denial of service (host OS networking outage) by arranging for a large number of IP addresses.
Affected products
- Canonical Ubuntu Linux: 12.04
- Linux kernel: through 4.5.1
- Novell Suse Linux Enterprise Debuginfo: 11.0-sp4
- Novell Suse Linux Enterprise Desktop: 12.0
- Novell Suse Linux Enterprise Live Patching: 12.0
- Novell Suse Linux Enterprise Module For Public Cloud: 12.0
- Novell Suse Linux Enterprise Real Time Extension: 11.0-sp4, 12.0-sp1
- Novell Suse Linux Enterprise Server: 11.0-extra, 11.0-sp4, 12.0
- Novell Suse Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit: 11.0-sp4, 12.0
- Novell Suse Linux Enterprise Workstation Extension: 12.0
References
- http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=fbd40ea0180a2d328c5adc61414dc8bab9335ce2
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-04/msg00019.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-05/msg00060.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-06/msg00052.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-06/msg00054.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-06/msg00059.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-07/msg00005.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-08/msg00038.html
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2574.html
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2584.html
- http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3607
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/03/15/3
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