CVEvulnerability

CVE-2015-5366

5.0 MEDIUM Published 2015-08-31 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2015-08-31
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
5.0 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
Weaknesses
CWE-399

Description

The (1) udp_recvmsg and (2) udpv6_recvmsg functions in the Linux kernel before 4.0.6 provide inappropriate -EAGAIN return values, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (EPOLLET epoll application read outage) via an incorrect checksum in a UDP packet, a different vulnerability than CVE-2015-5364.

Affected configurations

• linux linux kernel (<= 4.0.5) • redhat enterprise linux server aus 6.5

Related

Weakness · not in database (1)

References