VIR Vulnerability Intelligence Relay

CVE-2016-5696

medium
Published 2016-08-06 · Modified 2026-05-06
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CVSS v3
4.8
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:L
CVSS v4 NEW
—
not yet in upstream
VIR risk
4.8

Description

net/ipv4/tcp_input.c in the Linux kernel before 4.7 does not properly determine the rate of challenge ACK segments, which makes it easier for remote attackers to hijack TCP sessions via a blind in-window attack.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
58%
Patch ETA
—

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

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OS impact
linux Linux kernel Affected 1 release
VersionStatusFixed in
— Affected —
suse SUSE Affected 1 release
VersionStatusFixed in
— Affected —
debian Debian Fixed 5 releases
VersionStatusFixed in
trixie Fixed 4.7.2-1
sid Fixed 4.7.2-1
forky Fixed 4.7.2-1
bullseye Fixed 4.7.2-1
bookworm Fixed 4.7.2-1

Application impact
VendorProductVersionsFixed
oracle oraclevm_server3.3
oracle oraclevm_server3.4

References

CWEs

CWE-200

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.