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UK Cyber Defence
VulnerabilityModified

CVE-2016-7039

The IP stack in the Linux kernel through 4.8.2 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (stack consumption and panic) or possibly have unspecified other impact by triggering use of the GRO path for large crafted packets, as demonstrated by…

HIGH 7.5EPSS 7.61%

Does this matter?

High impact if exploited, but EPSS currently rates exploitation as unlikely (7.61%). Schedule it in the normal patch cycle and watch for a rise in EPSS or a public exploit.

Description

The IP stack in the Linux kernel through 4.8.2 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (stack consumption and panic) or possibly have unspecified other impact by triggering use of the GRO path for large crafted packets, as demonstrated by packets that contain only VLAN headers, a related issue to CVE-2016-8666.

CVSS 3.1
7.5 HIGHCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
EPSS
7.61% probability · 95th percentile
Public exploits
None in Exploit-DB
CISA KEV
Not listed
Weakness
CWE-399
Affected
oracle/linux · oracle/vm server · linux/linux kernel
Source
cve@mitre.org
EPSS trend
0%5%10%27 October 2026: 7.61%27 October 202627 October 2026

EPSS 7.6% since 27 October 2026; no change recorded yet. The dashed line is the ten per cent mark our analysts treat as “patch before the next change window”. Points are recorded when the score first appears and whenever it moves by a percentage point or more.

References

Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA, exploits from Exploit-DB. Refreshed daily. Download this record as JSON.