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High severity7.5NVD Advisory· Published Oct 16, 2016· Updated Jun 17, 2026

CVE-2016-8666

CVE-2016-8666

Description

The IP stack in the Linux kernel before 4.6 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (stack consumption and panic) or possibly have unspecified other impact by triggering use of the GRO path for packets with tunnel stacking, as demonstrated by interleaved IPv4 headers and GRE headers, a related issue to CVE-2016-7039.

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