CVE-2016-10229

Description

udp.c in the Linux kernel before 4.5 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via UDP traffic that triggers an unsafe second checksum calculation during execution of a recv system call with the MSG_PEEK flag.

References

https://security.paloaltonetworks.com/CVE-2016-10229

https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/197c949e7798fbf28cfadc69d9ca0c2abbf93191

http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1038201

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/97397

http://source.android.com/security/bulletin/2017-04-01.html

http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=197c949e7798fbf28cfadc69d9ca0c2abbf93191

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Risk Information

CVSS v2

CVSS v3