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CVE-2015-5364

Public on 2015-07-22
Modified on 2015-09-25
Description

A flaw was found in the way the Linux kernel's networking implementation handled UDP packets with incorrect checksum values. A remote attacker could potentially use this flaw to trigger an infinite loop in the kernel, resulting in a denial of service on the system, or cause a denial of service in applications using the edge triggered epoll functionality.

Severity
Important
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CVSS v3 Base Score
7.1
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Affected Packages

Platform Package Release Date Advisory
Amazon Linux 1 kernel 2015-07-22 10:00 ALAS-2015-565

CVSS Scores

Score Type Score Vector
Amazon Linux CVSSv2 7.1 AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C
NVD CVSSv2 7.8 AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C