CVE-2016-10229

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    CVE-2016-10229

    Published: 4 Apr 2017Last Modified: 15 Mar 2026

    Summary:

    Details: 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.

    References: http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/97397, http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1038201, https://security.paloaltonetworks.com/CVE-2016-10229, https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20250103-0008/, http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=197c949e7798fbf28cfadc69d9ca0c2abbf93191, http://source.android.com/security/bulletin/2017-04-01.html, https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/197c949e7798fbf28cfadc69d9ca0c2abbf93191

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    Availability
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