net: netpoll: Initialize UDP checksum field before checksumming
3Vexday Risk Score
No sign of exploitation. No public exploitation artifact known so far.
ssvc Trackepss 0.1%
exploitation probability
0.1%top 96% of all CVEs
observed exploitation
nono source reports it
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
net: netpoll: Initialize UDP checksum field before checksumming
commit f1fce08e63fe ("netpoll: Eliminate redundant assignment") removed
the initialization of the UDP checksum, which was wrong and broke
netpoll IPv6 transmission due to bad checksumming.
udph->check needs to be set before calling csum_ipv6_magic().
Affected products
Linux · Linux