CVE-2015-5156
- State
- Published
- Severity
- Not scored
- Published
- Oct 19, 2015
- Updated
- Aug 6, 2024
- Reserved
- Jul 1, 2015
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.
Scores
The record has no CVSS score.
Weaknesses
The record names no weakness.
Affected Products
| Product | Versions |
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References
- SUSE-SU-2015:2292vendor-advisory
- RHSA-2016:0855vendor-advisory
- DSA-3364vendor-advisory
- http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/linuxbulletinapr2016-2952096.html
- SUSE-SU-2015:1727vendor-advisory
- RHSA-2015:1978vendor-advisory
- http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/linuxbulletinjan2016-2867209.html
- FEDORA-2015-0253d1f070vendor-advisory
- http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=48900cb6af4282fa0fb6ff4d72a81aa3dadb5c39
- https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/48900cb6af4282fa0fb6ff4d72a81aa3dadb5c39
- http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/linuxbulletinoct2015-2719645.html
- 76230vdb-entry
- USN-2774-1vendor-advisory
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1243852
- USN-2773-1vendor-advisory
- FEDORA-2015-c15f00eb95vendor-advisory
- 1034045vdb-entry
- USN-2777-1vendor-advisory
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