Linux kernel DoS

Special SOLINGER value for SCTP socket causes system to crash. ELF loader vulnerability on 64-bit system causes system to crash on malformed ELF binary...

CVE-2006-4535: Undefined Security Weakness

The Linux kernel 2.6.17.10 and 2.6.17.11 and 2.6.18-rc5 allows local users to cause a denial of service crash via an SCTP socket with a certain SOLINGER value, possibly related to the patch for CVE-2006-3745. NOTE: older kernel versions for specific Linux distributions are also affected, due to...

rPSA-2006-0162-1 kernel

rPath Security Advisory: 2006-0162-1 Published: 2006-08-31 Products: rPath Linux 1 Rating: Major Exposure Level Classification: Local Root Deterministic Privilege Escalation Updated Versions: kernel=/conary.rpath.com@rpl:devel//1/2.6.17.11-1-0.1 References:...

kernel security update

CentOS Errata and Security Advisory CESA-2006:0617 Updated kernel packages that fix several security issues 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...

kernel security update

CentOS Errata and Security Advisory CESA-2006:0575 Updated kernel packages are now available as part of ongoing support and maintenance of Red Hat Enterprise Linux version 4. This update has been rated as having important security impact by the Red Hat Security Response Team. The Linux kernel...

CVE-2006-3745

Unspecified vulnerability in the sctpmakeabortuser function in the SCTP implementation in Linux 2.6.x before 2.6.17.10 and 2.4.23 up to 2.4.33 allows local users to cause a denial of service panic and possibly gain root privileges via unknown attack vectors...

CVE-2006-3745

Unspecified vulnerability in the sctpmakeabortuser function in the SCTP implementation in Linux 2.6.x before 2.6.17.10 and 2.4.23 up to 2.4.33 allows local users to cause a denial of service panic and possibly gain root privileges via unknown attack vectors...

CVE-2006-3745

CVE-2006-3745 affects the SCTP implementation in Linux 2.6.x (before 2.6.17.10) and 2.4.x (up to 2.4.33). The vulnerability resides in sctp_make_abort_user and allows a local user to cause a denial of service (panic) and potentially gain root privileges via unspecified attack vectors. Connected s...

Linux SCTP privilege escalation

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security flaw

SCTP in Linux kernel before 2.6.16.17 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service crash and possibly execute arbitrary code via a chunk length that is inconsistent with the actual length of provided parameters...

security flaw

Unspecified vulnerability in the sctpmakeabortuser function in the SCTP implementation in Linux 2.6.x before 2.6.17.10 and 2.4.23 up to 2.4.33 allows local users to cause a denial of service panic and possibly gain root privileges via unknown attack vectors...

RHEL 4 : kernel (RHSA-2006:0575)

Updated kernel packages are now available as part of ongoing support and maintenance of Red Hat Enterprise Linux version 4. 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...

USN-331-1: Linux kernel vulnerabilities

A Denial of service vulnerability was reported in iptables' SCTP conntrack module. On computers which use this iptables module, a remote attacker could expoit this to trigger a kernel crash. CVE-2006-2934 A buffer overflow has been discovered in the dvdreadbca function. By inserting a specially...

Mandrake Linux Security Advisory : kernel (MDKSA-2006:123)

A number of vulnerabilities were discovered and corrected in the Linux 2.6 kernel : The kernel did not clear sockaddrin.sinzero before returning IPv4 socket names for the getsockopt function, which could allow a local user to obtain portions of potentially sensitive memory if getsockopt is called...

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...

[Full-disclosure] rPSA-2006-0122-1 kernel

rPath Security Advisory: 2006-0122-1 Published: 2006-07-07 Products: rPath Linux 1 Rating: Major Exposure Level Classification: Local Deterministic Denial of Service Updated Versions: kernel=/conary.rpath.com@rpl:devel//1/2.6.16.24-0.1-1 References:...

CentOS 4 : kernel (CESA-2006:0493)

Updated kernel packages that fix several security issues 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 operating syste...

Null pointer dereference

SCTP conntrack ipconntrackprotosctp.c in netfilter for Linux kernel 2.6.17 before 2.6.17.3 and 2.6.16 before 2.6.16.23 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service crash via a packet without any chunks, which causes a variable to contain an invalid value that is later used to dereference ...

CVE-2006-2934

SCTP conntrack ipconntrackprotosctp.c in netfilter for Linux kernel 2.6.17 before 2.6.17.3 and 2.6.16 before 2.6.16.23 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service crash via a packet without any chunks, which causes a variable to contain an invalid value that is later used to dereference ...

CVE-2006-2934

CVE-2006-2934 is a kernel-level DoS in SCTP conntrack (netfilter) for Linux kernels 2.6.17 before 2.6.17.3 and 2.6.16 before 2.6.16.23, where a crafted packet without chunks can trigger a value bug leading to a NULL dereference and crash. The connected advisories reference upstream kernel patches...