CVE-2015-5364

Publication date

2015-08-31 10:00:00

Family

debian

State

PUBLISHED

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.