CVE-2016-3707

A flaw was found in the way the realtime kernel processed specially crafted ICMP echo requests. A remote attacker could use this flaw to trigger a sysrql function based on values in the ICMP packet, allowing them to remotely restart the system. Note that this feature is not enabled by default and requires elevated privileges to be configured.

This issue does not affect the Linux kernels as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5, 6 and 7.

This issue affects the Linux kernel-rt packages as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 and MRG-2 and may be addressed in a future update.

The CVSS score(s) listed for this vulnerability do not reflect the associated product's status, and are included for informational purposes to better understand the severity of this vulnerability.