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CVE-2015-8787

Public on 2015-10-27
Modified on 2017-10-13
Description

A NULL-pointer dereference vulnerability was found in the Linux kernel's TCP stack, in net/netfilter/nf_nat_redirect.c in the nf_nat_redirect_ipv4() function. A remote, unauthenticated user could exploit this flaw to create a system crash (denial of service).

Severity
Medium
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CVSS v3 Base Score
5.4
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Affected Packages

Platform Package Release Date Advisory
Amazon Linux 1 kernel 2015-10-27 13:40 ALAS-2015-603

CVSS Scores

Score Type Score Vector
Amazon Linux CVSSv2 5.4 AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C
NVD CVSSv2 10.0 AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
NVD CVSSv3 9.8 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H