vulnerability

ELSA-2016-0045-1 Important: Oracle Linux kernel security update

Severity
8
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C)
Published
Jan 20, 2016
Added
Jan 21, 2016
Modified
Feb 18, 2025

Description

The (1) udp_recvmsg and (2) udpv6_recvmsg functions in the Linux kernel before 4.0.6 do not properly consider yielding a processor, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (system hang) via incorrect checksums within a UDP packet flood.

Solutions

linuxrpm-upgrade-ols5-ia64-kernellinuxrpm-upgrade-ols5-ia64-kernel-debuglinuxrpm-upgrade-ols5-ia64-kernel-debug-devellinuxrpm-upgrade-ols5-ia64-kernel-devellinuxrpm-upgrade-ols5-ia64-kernel-doclinuxrpm-upgrade-ols5-ia64-kernel-headerslinuxrpm-upgrade-ols5-ia64-kernel-xenlinuxrpm-upgrade-ols5-ia64-kernel-xen-devellinuxrpm-upgrade-ols5-ia64-ocfs2linuxrpm-upgrade-ols5-ia64-oracleasmlinuxrpm-upgrade-ols5-x86-kernellinuxrpm-upgrade-ols5-x86-kernel-PAElinuxrpm-upgrade-ols5-x86-kernel-PAE-devellinuxrpm-upgrade-ols5-x86-kernel-debuglinuxrpm-upgrade-ols5-x86-kernel-debug-devellinuxrpm-upgrade-ols5-x86-kernel-devellinuxrpm-upgrade-ols5-x86-kernel-doclinuxrpm-upgrade-ols5-x86-kernel-headerslinuxrpm-upgrade-ols5-x86-kernel-xenlinuxrpm-upgrade-ols5-x86-kernel-xen-devellinuxrpm-upgrade-ols5-x86-ocfs2linuxrpm-upgrade-ols5-x86-oracleasmlinuxrpm-upgrade-ols5-x86_64-kernellinuxrpm-upgrade-ols5-x86_64-kernel-debuglinuxrpm-upgrade-ols5-x86_64-kernel-debug-devellinuxrpm-upgrade-ols5-x86_64-kernel-devellinuxrpm-upgrade-ols5-x86_64-kernel-doclinuxrpm-upgrade-ols5-x86_64-kernel-headerslinuxrpm-upgrade-ols5-x86_64-kernel-xenlinuxrpm-upgrade-ols5-x86_64-kernel-xen-devellinuxrpm-upgrade-ols5-x86_64-ocfs2linuxrpm-upgrade-ols5-x86_64-oracleasm

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