openSUSE: Security Advisory for iperf (SUSE-SU-2023:3887-1)

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Code injection

The socket implementation in net/core/sock.c in the Linux kernel before 2.6.34 does not properly manage a backlog of received packets, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service memory consumption by sending a large amount of network traffic, as demonstrated by netperf UDP tests...