USN-250-1: Linux kernel vulnerability

Herbert Xu discovered a remote Denial of Service vulnerability in the ICMP packet handler. In some situations a memory allocation was released twice, which led to memory corruption. A remote attacker could exploit this to crash the machine...

USN-95-1: Linux kernel vulnerabilities

A remote Denial of Service vulnerability was discovered in the Netfilter IP packet handler. This allowed a remote attacker to crash the machine by sending specially crafted IP packet fragments. CAN-2005-0209 The Netfilter code also contained a memory leak. Certain locally generated packet fragmen...