Important: Red Hat Security Advisory: kernel security update

An update for kernel is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Extended Lifecycle Support. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Important. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for...

CVE-2016-2070

The tcpcwndreduction function in net/ipv4/tcpinput.c in the Linux kernel before 4.3.5 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service divide-by-zero error and system crash via crafted TCP traffic...

CVE-2016-2070

The tcpcwndreduction function in net/ipv4/tcpinput.c in the Linux kernel before 4.3.5 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service divide-by-zero error and system crash via crafted TCP traffic...

CVE-2016-2070

CVE-2016-2070 affects Linux kernels prior to 4.3.5. The tcp_cwnd_reduction function in net/ipv4/tcp_input.c can be triggered by crafted TCP traffic to cause a divide-by-zero DoS and system crash. According to connected advisories, upgrading to kernel 4.3.5 (as cited in ChangeLog-4.3.5) is the rem...