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veracodeVeracode Vulnerability DatabaseVERACODE:18257
HistoryMay 02, 2019 - 6:36 a.m.

Denial Of Service (DoS)

2019-05-0206:36:14
Veracode Vulnerability Database
sca.analysiscenter.veracode.com
15

EPSS

0

Percentile

5.1%

Linux kernel is vulnerable to denial of service(DoS) attacks. This is because of the mishandling of inheritance of the tcp_v6_syn_recv_sock function in net/ipv6/tcp_ipv6.c. A local user could use this flaw to induce kernel memory corruption on the system which leads application to crash.

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