Important: Red Hat Security Advisory: kernel security and bug fix update

Updated kernel packages that fix three security issues and several bugs are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.4 Extended Update Support. The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this update as having Important security impact. Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base scores,...

Important: Red Hat Security Advisory: kernel security and bug fix update

Updated kernel packages that fix two security issues and one bug are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.3 Extended Update Support. The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this update as having Important security impact. Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base scores, which gi...

Important: Red Hat Security Advisory: kernel security and bug fix update

Updated kernel packages that fix three security issues and several bugs are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6. The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this update as having Important security impact. Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base scores, which give detailed severit...

kernel: netfilter: nf_conntrack_dccp: incorrect skb_header_pointer API usages

net/netfilter/nfconntrackprotodccp.c in the Linux kernel through 3.13.6 uses a DCCP header pointer incorrectly, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service system crash or possibly execute arbitrary code via a DCCP packet that triggers a call to the 1 dccpnew, 2 dccppacket, or 3...

Important: Red Hat Security Advisory: kernel-rt security, bug fix, and enhancement update

Updated kernel-rt packages that fix multiple security issues, several bugs, and add various enhancements are now available for Red Hat Enterprise MRG 2.5. The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this update as having Important security impact. Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base...

USN-2158-1: Linux kernel (Raring HWE) vulnerabilities

Stephan Mueller reported an error in the Linux kernel's ansi cprng random number generator. This flaw makes it easier for a local attacker to break cryptographic protections. CVE-2013-4345 Nico Golde and Fabian Yamaguchi reported buffer underflow errors in the implementation of the XFS filesystem...

Ubuntu 12.04 LTS : linux-lts-raring vulnerabilities (USN-2158-1)

Stephan Mueller reported an error in the Linux kernel's ansi cprng random number generator. This flaw makes it easier for a local attacker to break cryptographic protections. CVE-2013-4345 Nico Golde and Fabian Yamaguchi reported buffer underflow errors in the implementation of the XFS filesystem...

Ubuntu: Security Advisory (USN-2137-1)

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2014 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only ifdescription...

Ubuntu Update for linux USN-2140-1

Check for the Version of linux OpenVAS Vulnerability Test $Id: gbubuntuUSN21401.nasl 7957 2017-12-01 06:40:08Z santu $ Ubuntu Update for linux USN-2140-1 Authors: System Generated Check Copyright: Copyright C 2014 Greenbone Networks GmbH, http://www.greenbone.net This program is free software; yo...

Ubuntu 12.04 LTS : linux-lts-saucy vulnerabilities (USN-2137-1)

An information leak was discovered in the Linux kernel when built with the NetFilter Connection Tracking NFCONNTRACK support for IRC protocol NFNATIRC. A remote attacker could exploit this flaw to obtain potentially sensitive kernel information when communicating over a client- to-client IRC...

USN-2140-1: Linux kernel vulnerabilities

An information leak was discovered in the Linux kernel when built with the NetFilter Connection Tracking NFCONNTRACK support for IRC protocol NFNATIRC. A remote attacker could exploit this flaw to obtain potentially sensitive kernel information when communicating over a client- to-client IRC...

USN-2137-1: Linux kernel (Saucy HWE) vulnerabilities

An information leak was discovered in the Linux kernel when built with the NetFilter Connection Tracking NFCONNTRACK support for IRC protocol NFNATIRC. A remote attacker could exploit this flaw to obtain potentially sensitive kernel information when communicating over a client- to-client IRC...

Important: Red Hat Security Advisory: kernel security and bug fix update

Updated kernel packages that fix two security issues and several bugs are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6. The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this update as having important security impact. Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base scores, which give detailed severity...

SuSE 10 Security Update : Linux kernel (ZYPP Patch Number 4186)

This kernel update fixes the following security problems : - The IPv6 protocol allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service via crafted IPv6 type 0 route headers IPV6RTHDRTYPE0 that create network amplification between two routers. CVE-2007-2242 The default is that RH0 is disabled now. To...

Ubuntu Update for linux-source-2.6.15/2.6.17/2.6.20 vulnerabilities USN-464-1

Ubuntu Update for Linux kernel vulnerabilities USN-464-1 OpenVAS Vulnerability Test $Id: gbubuntuUSN4641.nasl 7969 2017-12-01 09:23:16Z santu $ Ubuntu Update for linux-source-2.6.15/2.6.17/2.6.20 vulnerabilities USN-464-1 Authors: System Generated Check Copyright: Copyright c 2009 Greenbone...

SuSE Security Update: Kernel Update for SUSE Linux 10.1 (kernel-4193)

This kernel update brings the kernel to the one shipped with SLES 10 Service Pack 1 and also fixes the following security problems: - CVE-2007-2242: The IPv6 protocol allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service via crafted IPv6 type 0 route headers IPV6RTHDRTYPE0 that create network...

nf}_conntrack_sctp: remotely triggerable NULL ptr dereference

The sctpnew function in 1 ipconntrackprotosctp.c and 2 nfconntrackprotosctp.c in Netfilter in Linux kernel 2.6 before 2.6.20.13, and 2.6.21.x before 2.6.21.4, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service by causing certain invalid states that trigger a NULL pointer dereference...

nf}_conntrack_sctp: remotely triggerable NULL ptr dereference

The sctpnew function in 1 ipconntrackprotosctp.c and 2 nfconntrackprotosctp.c in Netfilter in Linux kernel 2.6 before 2.6.20.13, and 2.6.21.x before 2.6.21.4, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service by causing certain invalid states that trigger a NULL pointer dereference...

snort packets reassembly DoS

Invalid packets reassembly on connection tracking causes application to crash...

Linux kernel fails to properly handle malformed SCTP packets

Overview It is possible to cause a denial of service of the Linux kernel by sending a SCTP packet containing no chunks. Description The Stream Control Transmission Protocol SCTP, RFC 2960 is a transport layer protocol which provides reliable, sequential transport of message streams with congestio...