Improperly Implemented Security Check for Standard The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package linux-vanilla  (opens in a new tab)


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  • Snyk IDSNYK-ALPINE33-LINUXVANILLA-267701
  • published4 Apr 2017
  • disclosed4 Apr 2017

Introduced: 4 Apr 2017

CVE-2016-10229  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-358  (opens in a new tab)

Amendment

The Alpine security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for Alpine:3.3.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream linux-vanilla package and not the linux-vanilla package as distributed by Alpine.

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.