CVE-2015-5156 Memory corruption in n/a

What is CVE-2015-5156?

CVE-2015-5156 is a medium-severity memory corruption vulnerability in Linux kernel, published on 19 Oct 2015. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.

Official 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.

Weakness: CWE-119

Which versions are affected by CVE-2015-5156?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Linux kernel.

How do I fix CVE-2015-5156?

Upgrade to a fixed version.

Upgrade to the fixed version. Memory-safe languages, compiler hardening and fuzzing prevent most new cases. More about Memory corruption.

Is CVE-2015-5156 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2015-5156 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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• CVE-2013-6282 Linux Kernel Improper Input Validation Exploited High 8.8
• CVE-2022-0185 Linux Kernel Heap-Based Buffer Overflow Exploited High 8.4
• CVE-2013-2094 Linux Kernel Privilege Escalation Exploited High 8.4
• CVE-2026-53362 Linux Kernel Unspecified Exploited High 7.8

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Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
• How this page is made

Also known as DEBIAN-CVE-2015-5156, GHSA-hm78-pq45-736h, UBUNTU-CVE-2015-5156.