CVE-2015-5156
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2015-10-19 10:00
Modified
2024-08-06 06:32
Severity ?
Summary
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.
References
secalert@redhat.comhttp://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=48900cb6af4282fa0fb6ff4d72a81aa3dadb5c39
secalert@redhat.comhttp://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-November/171454.html
secalert@redhat.comhttp://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-October/169378.html
secalert@redhat.comhttp://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-10/msg00009.html
secalert@redhat.comhttp://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-12/msg00018.html
secalert@redhat.comhttp://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-1978.html
secalert@redhat.comhttp://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-0855.html
secalert@redhat.comhttp://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3364
secalert@redhat.comhttp://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/linuxbulletinapr2016-2952096.html
secalert@redhat.comhttp://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/linuxbulletinjan2016-2867209.html
secalert@redhat.comhttp://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/linuxbulletinoct2015-2719645.html
secalert@redhat.comhttp://www.securityfocus.com/bid/76230
secalert@redhat.comhttp://www.securitytracker.com/id/1034045
secalert@redhat.comhttp://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2773-1
secalert@redhat.comhttp://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2774-1
secalert@redhat.comhttp://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2777-1
secalert@redhat.comhttps://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1243852
secalert@redhat.comhttps://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/48900cb6af4282fa0fb6ff4d72a81aa3dadb5c39
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