CVE-2016-10229

CRITICAL9.8EPSS 1.2%
Published: 4/4/2017Modified: 11/19/2025
Also known as:ALPINE-CVE-2016-10229DEBIAN-CVE-2016-10229

Description

udp.c in the Linux kernel before 4.5 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via UDP traffic that triggers an unsafe second checksum calculation during execution of a recv system call with the MSG_PEEK flag.

Affected packages (2)

CVSS scores

SourceVersionSeverityVector
osvCVSS 3.1CRITICAL9.8CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

References (2)