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Feast day May 2

G GRO packet of death CVE-2019-11683
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Saint GRO packet of death

Hagiography in preparation at the scriptorium.

Technical record

Disclosed on
May 2 2019
CVE
CVE-2019-11683

udp_gro_receive_segment in net/ipv4/udp_offload.c in the Linux kernel 5.x before 5.0.13 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (slab-out-of-bounds memory corruption) or possibly have unspecified other impact via UDP packets with a 0 payload, because of mishandling of padded packets, aka the "GRO packet of death" issue.

Sources: openwall.com

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