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Freshness: upstream tracker timestamp is available; use API updated time as primary recency signal.
CVE-2016-7039 high priority: Ubuntu including 27 source packages (linux, linux-armadaxp, …), 135 status rows across 5 suites (precise, trusty, upstream, xenial, yakkety): DNE 81, released 32, not-affected 15, ignored 7.
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.