VIR Vulnerability Intelligence Relay

CVE-2016-9919

high
Published 2016-12-08 · Modified 2026-05-06
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CVSS v3
7.5
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS v4 NEW
—
not yet in upstream
VIR risk
7.5

Description

The icmp6_send function in net/ipv6/icmp.c in the Linux kernel through 4.8.12 omits a certain check of the dst data structure, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (panic) via a fragmented IPv6 packet.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
83%
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 3 releases
VersionStatusFixed in
4.9 Affected —
4.4.223 Affected —
— Affected 4.9
suse SUSE Affected 1 release
VersionStatusFixed in
— Affected —
arch Arch Fixed 1 release
VersionStatusFixed in
— Fixed 4.4.37-1
debian Debian Fixed 5 releases
VersionStatusFixed in
trixie Fixed 4.8.15-1
sid Fixed 4.8.15-1
forky Fixed 4.8.15-1
bullseye Fixed 4.8.15-1
bookworm Fixed 4.8.15-1

References

CWEs

CWE-20

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

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