vulnerability

Debian: CVE-2016-10229: linux -- security update

Severity
10
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)
Published
Apr 4, 2017
Added
Jul 30, 2024
Modified
Mar 30, 2026

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.

Solution

debian-upgrade-linux
Title
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