Bug 1386646 (CVE-2016-8106) - CVE-2016-8106 kernel: DoS of Intel Ethernet controllers after a period of IPv6 fragment flood
Summary: CVE-2016-8106 kernel: DoS of Intel Ethernet controllers after a period of IPv...
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Status: CLOSED NOTABUG
Alias: CVE-2016-8106
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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Depends On: 1370029
Blocks: 1386648
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Reported: 2016-10-19 11:39 UTC by Adam Mariš
Modified: 2021-02-17 03:08 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2017-04-10 12:05:30 UTC
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Description Adam Mariš 2016-10-19 11:39:10 UTC 
It was found that Intel® Ethernet Controller X710 family and Intel® Ethernet Controller XL710 family of products (aka Fortville) can possibly lock up and not receive any packets after a period of IPv6 fragment flood.

Product bug:

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1370029

References:

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-8106

https://security-center.intel.com/advisory.aspx?intelid=INTEL-SA-00063&languageid=en-fr
Comment 1 Vladis Dronov 2017-04-10 12:02:47 UTC 
Statement:

None of the Red Hat's products are affected as the flaw was found in the Intel network card Non-Volatile Flash Memory (NVM) image (firmware).
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