The kernel update patches three security issues, two of them being flaws discovered in the Linux kernel’s handling of invalid UDP checksums, which could allow local attackers to flood the host system with UDP packets that have invalid checksums, or cause a denial of service agains apps that use epoll by injecting a single UDP packet that has an invalid checksum.
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