CVE-2015-5156

Source
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2015-5156
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2015-5156.json
JSON Data
https://api.test.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2015-5156
Downstream
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Published
2015-10-19T10:59:02Z
Modified
2025-08-09T20:01:27Z
Summary
[none]
Details

The virtnetprobe function in drivers/net/virtionet.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.

References

Affected packages