CVE-2016-7039: Linux Kernel

High severity, CVSS 7.5. EPSS: 7.6% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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.

Affected products

• Linux Linux Kernel: from 4.0, before 4.1.37 (fixed in 4.1.37); from 4.2, before 4.4.32 (fixed in 4.4.32); from 4.5, before 4.8.8 (fixed in 4.8.8)
• Oracle Linux: version 6 only; version 7 only
• Oracle Vm Server: version 3.4 only

Published 2016-10-16. Last modified 2026-06-17.