[kernel-sec-discuss] r4989 - dsa-texts

[Salvatore Bonaccorso]

Author: carnil
Date: 2017-02-22 12:13:35 +0000 (Wed, 22 Feb 2017)
New Revision: 4989

Modified:
   dsa-texts/3.16.39-1+deb8u1
Log:
Add description for CVE-2017-5970

Modified: dsa-texts/3.16.39-1+deb8u1
===================================================================
--- dsa-texts/3.16.39-1+deb8u1	2017-02-22 12:03:42 UTC (rev 4988)
+++ dsa-texts/3.16.39-1+deb8u1	2017-02-22 12:13:35 UTC (rev 4989)
@@ -55,6 +55,10 @@
     ip6gre_err function in the IPv6 networking code.
 
 CVE-2017-5970
+
+    Andrey Konovalov discovered a denial-of-service flaw in the IPv4
+    networking code, triggerable by sending bad IP options on a socket.
+
 CVE-2017-6001
 CVE-2017-6074