CVE-2015-5366

Medium

Description

The (1) udp_recvmsg and (2) udpv6_recvmsg functions in the Linux kernel before 4.0.6 provide inappropriate -EAGAIN return values, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (EPOLLET epoll application read outage) via an incorrect checksum in a UDP packet, a different vulnerability than CVE-2015-5364.

SeverityMedium
CVSS5.0
Exploit probability—
ProductLinux Kernel
PublishedAug 31, 2015
First seenAug 31, 2015

How to fix

Sources list no fixed version or patch link for this vulnerability.

Affected products

ProductAffected versionsFixed in
linux linux_kernelv ≤ 4.0.5—
redhat enterprise_linux_server_aus6.5—

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