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CVE-2016-10229

• Severity: critical (CVSS 9.8 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 12.9% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2017-04-04 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-358

Description

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.

Affected products

• Android: through 7.1.1
• Linux kernel: from 3.2 before 3.2.76; from 3.3 before 3.4.113; from 3.5 before 3.10.103; from 3.11 before 3.12.53; from 3.13 before 3.14.77; from 3.15 before 3.16.35 — fixed in 3.10.103, 3.12.53, 3.14.77, 3.16.35, 3.18.45, 3.2.76

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: Linux kernel 3.10.103, 3.12.53, 3.14.77, 3.16.35. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

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

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