CVE-2015-5156

Name	CVE-2015-5156
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.
Source	CVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, bugtraq, EDB, Metasploit, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, Mageia, GitHub code/issues, web search, more)
References	DLA-310-1, DSA-3364-1
NVD severity	medium

Vulnerable and fixed packages

The table below lists information on source packages.

Source Package	Release	Version	Status
linux (PTS)	jessie	3.16.56-1+deb8u1	fixed
	jessie (security)	3.16.81-1	fixed
	stretch	4.9.210-1	fixed
	stretch (security)	4.9.189-3+deb9u2	fixed
	buster	4.19.98-1	fixed
	buster (security)	4.19.67-2+deb10u2	fixed
	bullseye, sid	5.4.19-1	fixed

The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.

Package	Type	Release	Fixed Version	Origin
linux	source	(unstable)	4.1.5-1
linux	source	jessie	3.16.7-ckt11-1+deb8u4	DSA-3364-1
linux	source	wheezy	3.2.68-1+deb7u4	DSA-3364-1
linux-2.6	source	(unstable)	(unfixed)
linux-2.6	source	squeeze	2.6.32-48squeeze14	DLA-310-1

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