CVEvulnerability

CVE-2015-5156

6.1 MEDIUM Published 2015-10-19 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2015-10-19
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
6.1 MEDIUM — AV:A/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C
Weaknesses
CWE-119

Description

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.

Affected configurations

• linux linux kernel (<= 4.1.10)

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-119 Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer weakness

References