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LIN8-1358 : Security Advisory - linux - CVE-2015-5156

Created: Oct 29, 2015    Updated: Dec 3, 2018
Resolved Date: Jan 24, 2016
Found In Version: 8.0
Fix Version: 8.0.0.2
Severity: Standard
Applicable for: Wind River Linux 8
Component/s: Kernel

Description

The virtnet_probe function in drivers/net/virtio_net.c in the Linux kernel before 4.2 attempts to support a FRAGLIST feature without proper memory allocation, which allows guest OS users to cause a denial of service (buffer overflow and memory corruption) via a crafted sequence of fragmented packets.

http://web.nvd.nist.gov/view/vuln/detail?vulnId=CVE-2015-5156

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