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CVE-2015-5156

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Date: October 19, 2015

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.

Language: C

Severity Score

6.5

Related Resources (22)

Url: http://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3364

Url: http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-November/171454.html

Url: http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=48900cb6af4282fa0fb6ff4d72a81aa3dadb5c39

Url: http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-October/169378.html

Url: https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2015-5156

Url: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1243852

Url: https://people.canonical.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/CVE-2015-5156

Url: http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-1978.html

Url: http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/76230

Url: http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2773-1

Url: http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2774-1

Url: http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-12/msg00018.html

Url: http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/linuxbulletinjan2016-2867209.html

Url: http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1034045

Url: http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2777-1

Url: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2015-5156

Url: http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/linuxbulletinoct2015-2719645.html

Url: https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/48900cb6af4282fa0fb6ff4d72a81aa3dadb5c39

Url: http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-0855.html

Url: http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/linuxbulletinapr2016-2952096.html

Url: http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-10/msg00009.html

Url: https://www.mend.io/vulnerability-database/CVE-2015-5156

Severity Score

6.5

Weakness Type (CWE)

Buffer Errors

CWE-119

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CVSS v3.1

Base Score:	6.5
Attack Vector (AV):	ADJACENT_NETWORK
Attack Complexity (AC):	LOW
Privileges Required (PR):	NONE
User Interaction (UI):	NONE
Scope (S):	UNCHANGED
Confidentiality (C):	NONE
Integrity (I):	NONE
Availability (A):	HIGH

CVSS v2

Base Score:	6.1
Access Vector (AV):	ADJACENT
Access Complexity (AC):	LOW
Authentication (AU):	NONE
Confidentiality (C):	NONE
Integrity (I):	NONE
Availability (A):	COMPLETE
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CVE-2015-5156

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Date: October 19, 2015

Language: C

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