CVE-2017-5970

Publication date

2017-02-14 06:30:00

Family

mitre

State

PUBLISHED

Description

The ipv4_pktinfo_prepare function in net/ipv4/ip_sockglue.c in the Linux kernel through 4.9.9 allows attackers to cause a denial of service (system crash) via (1) an application that makes crafted system calls or possibly (2) IPv4 traffic with invalid IP options.