CVE-2015-1465 is a denial-of-service vulnerability affecting the IPv4 implementation in the Linux kernel versions prior to 3.18.8, including Canonical Ubuntu Linux. An attacker can exploit this by sending a flood of packets, leading to excessive memory consumption or a system crash due to improper handling of RCU grace periods for redirect lookups. With a CVSS score of 7.8 (high), this vulnerability is easily exploitable remotely with low attack complexity, resulting in a complete loss of availability. There is no evidence of active exploitation, publicly available exploit code, or significant community discussion surrounding this CVE.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
>= 3.10.50, < 3.10.70CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
>= 3.12.26, < 3.12.38CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
>= 3.14.14, < 3.14.34CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
>= 3.15.7, < 3.16.35CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
>= 3.17, < 3.18.8CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 2.0
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C
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