CVE-2016-9755

kernel: netfilter: Out-of-bounds write due to a signedness issue when defragmenting IPv6 packets

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Severity

Moderate

Red Hat Product Security

6.5

CVSS 3.0

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Published · November 26, 2016

Updated · November 21, 2025

Description

An attacker on a network could abuse a flaw in the IPv6 stack fragment reassembly code to induce kernel memory corruption on the system, possibly leading to a system crash.

CVSS score applicability

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Mitigation

No mitigation is specified in collected source.

CVSS / CWE

CVSS 3.0 · 6.5
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:L

CVSS 2.0 · 5.8
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:P

CWE-787 · Out-of-bounds Write