Important: Red Hat Security Advisory: kernel security update

Updated kernel packages that fix various security issues in the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 kernel are now available. This update has been rated as having important security impact by the Red Hat Security Response Team. The Linux kernel handles the basic functions of the operating system. These ne...

USN-510-1: Linux kernel vulnerabilities

A flaw was discovered in the PPP over Ethernet implementation. Local attackers could manipulate ioctls and cause kernel memory consumption leading to a denial of service. CVE-2007-2525 An integer underflow was discovered in the cpuset filesystem. If mounted, local attackers could obtain kernel...

USN-489-1: Linux kernel vulnerabilities

A flaw was discovered in dvb ULE decapsulation. A remote attacker could send a specially crafted message and cause a denial of service. CVE-2006-4623 The compatsysmount function allowed local users to cause a denial of service when mounting a smbfs filesystem in compatibility mode. CVE-2006-7203...

USN-486-1: Linux kernel vulnerabilities

The compatsysmount function allowed local users to cause a denial of service when mounting a smbfs filesystem in compatibility mode. CVE-2006-7203 The Omnikey CardMan 4040 driver cm4040cs did not limit the size of buffers passed to read and write. A local attacker could exploit this to execute...

CentOS 4 : kernel (CESA-2007:0488)

Updated kernel packages that fix several security issues and bugs in the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 kernel are now available. This security advisory has been rated as having important security impact by the Red Hat Security Response Team. The Linux kernel handles the basic functions of the...

kernel security update

CentOS Errata and Security Advisory CESA-2007:0488 Updated kernel packages that fix several security issues and bugs in the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 kernel are now available. This security advisory has been rated as having important security impact by the Red Hat Security Response Team. The Lin...

Important: kernel security update

2.6.9-55.0.2.0.1 - fix entropy flag in bnx2 driver to generate entropy pool John Sobecki orabug 5931647 - fix for nfs open call taking longer issue Chuck Lever orabug 5580407 bz 219412 - fix enomem due to larger mtu size page alloc Zach Brown orabug 5486128 - fix percpu api bugon with rds Zach...

Important: Red Hat Security Advisory: kernel security update

Updated kernel packages that fix several security issues and bugs in the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 kernel are now available. This security advisory has been rated as having important security impact by the Red Hat Security Response Team. The Linux kernel handles the basic functions of the...

Linux Kernel Netfilter *_conntrack_proto_sctp.c sctp_new Function Unknown Chunk Type Remote DoS

There is a flaw in the SCTP code included in Linux kernel versions before 2.6.21.4 that results in a kernel panic when an SCTP packet with an unknown chunk type is received. An attacker can leverage this flaw to crash the remote host with a single, possibly forged, packet. C Tenable Network...

CVE-2007-2876

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...

CentOS 4 : kernel (CESA-2007:0085)

Updated kernel packages that fix two security issues and a bug in the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 kernel are now available. This update has been rated as having important security impact by the Red Hat Security Response Team. The Linux kernel handles the basic functions of the operating system...

kernel security update

CentOS Errata and Security Advisory CESA-2007:0085 Updated kernel packages that fix two security issues and a bug in the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 kernel are now available. This update has been rated as having important security impact by the Red Hat Security Response Team. The Linux kernel...

Important: Red Hat Security Advisory: kernel security update

Updated kernel packages that fix two security issues and a bug in the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 kernel are now available. This update has been rated as having important security impact by the Red Hat Security Response Team. The Linux kernel handles the basic functions of the operating system...

RHEL 4 : kernel (RHSA-2007:0085)

Updated kernel packages that fix two security issues and a bug in the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 kernel are now available. This update has been rated as having important security impact by the Red Hat Security Response Team. The Linux kernel handles the basic functions of the operating system...

Mandrake Linux Security Advisory : kernel (MDKSA-2006:182)

A number of vulnerabilities were discovered and corrected in the Linux 2.6 kernel : Stephane Eranian discovered an issue with permon2.0 where, under certain circumstances, the perfmonctl system call may not correctly manage the file descriptor reference count, resulting in the system possibly...

Fedora Core 5 : kernel-2.6.16-1.2107_FC5 (2006-499)

An update to the latest upstream -stable snapshot 2.6.16.13 Among quite a few bug-fixes, are two security related fixes : Don't allow a backslash in a path component CVE-2006-1863 NETFILTER: SCTP conntrack: fix infinite loop CVE-2006-1527 Detailed changelogs of the last few point releases can be...

Fedora Core 4 : kernel-2.6.16-1.2111_FC4 (2006-573)

This update rebases to the latest upstream -stable release 2.6.16.17, where a number of security problems have been fixed, notably : SCTP: Validate the parameter length in HB-ACK chunk CVE-2006-1857 SCTP: Respect the real chunk length when walking parameters CVE-2006-1858 fs/locks.c: Fix leaseini...

Fedora Core 4 : kernel-2.6.17-1.2141_FC4 (2006-769)

An update to the latest upstream stable release 2.6.17.3, which fixes a security issue with SCTP. Further details: http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ChangeLog-2.6.17.3 http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ChangeLog-2.6.17.2 Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the...

Fedora Core 5 : kernel-2.6.17-1.2145_FC5 (2006-772)

An update to the latest upstream stable release 2.6.17.3, which fixes a security issue with SCTP. Further details: http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ChangeLog-2.6.17.3 http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ChangeLog-2.6.17.2 Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the...

Fedora Core 5 : kernel-2.6.16-1.2122_FC5 (2006-572)

This update rebases to the latest upstream -stable release 2.6.16.17, where a number of security problems have been fixed, notably : SCTP: Validate the parameter length in HB-ACK chunk CVE-2006-1857 SCTP: Respect the real chunk length when walking parameters CVE-2006-1858 fs/locks.c: Fix leaseini...