Detections
Analytics
CVE-2017-7397
high
Description
BackBox Linux 4.6 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (ksoftirqd CPU consumption) via a flood of packets with Martian source IP addresses (as defined in RFC 1812 section 5.3.7). This product enables net.ipv4.conf.all.log_martians by default. NOTE: the vendor reports "It has been proved that this vulnerability has no foundation and it is totally fake and based on false assumptions.
References
https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/41781/
https://cxsecurity.com/issue/WLB-2017040001
https://backbox.org/portal/blog/false-cve-backbox-46-unmasked