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CVE-2015-5364

CVE-2015-5364

EPSS 6.3%
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.
Affected products
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References
http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=beb39db59d14990e401e235faf66a6b9b31240b0http://kb.juniper.net/InfoCenter/index?page=content&id=JSA10761http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-07/msg00023.htmlhttp://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-07/msg00049.htmlhttp://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-08/msg00011.htmlhttp://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-09/msg00004.htmlhttp://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-09/msg00007.htmlhttp://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-09/msg00008.htmlhttp://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-09/msg00009.htmlhttp://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-09/msg00010.htmlhttp://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-09/msg00011.htmlhttp://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-09/msg00018.html