A flaw was found in the Linux kernel Traffic Control (TC) subsystem. Using a specific networking configuration (redirecting egress packets to ingress using TC action "mirred") a local unprivileged user could trigger a CPU soft lockup (ABBA …

{
                    "vendor": "n/a",
                    "product": "Linux kernel (TC subsystem)",
                    "versions": [
                        {
                            "version": "Since upstream commit 53592b3 (v4.10-rc1)",
                            "status": "affected"
                        }
                    ]
                }