CVE-2017-5970

Name	CVE-2017-5970
Description	The ipv4_pktinfo_prepare function in net/ipv4/ip_sockglue.c in the Linux kernel through 4.9.9 allows attackers to cause a denial of service (system crash) via (1) an application that makes crafted system calls or possibly (2) IPv4 traffic with invalid IP options.
Source	CVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, bugtraq, EDB, Metasploit, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, Mageia, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more)
References	DLA-922-1, DSA-3791-1

Vulnerable and fixed packages

The table below lists information on source packages.

Source Package	Release	Version	Status
linux (PTS)	buster	4.19.249-2	fixed
	buster (security)	4.19.269-1	fixed
	bullseye	5.10.158-2	fixed
	bullseye (security)	5.10.162-1	fixed
	bookworm	6.1.15-1	fixed
	sid	6.1.20-1	fixed

The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.

Package	Type	Release	Fixed Version	Origin
linux	source	wheezy	3.2.88-1	DLA-922-1
linux	source	jessie	3.16.39-1+deb8u1	DSA-3791-1
linux	source	(unstable)	4.9.10-1

Notes

Fixed by: https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/34b2cef20f19c87999fff3da4071e66937db9644 (v4.10-rc8)
Introduced by: https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/f84af32cbca70a3c6d30463dc08c7984af11c277 (v2.6.35-rc1)