Linux Kernel 2.6.x AppleTalk ATalk_Sum_SKB Function Denial of Service Vulnerability

No description provided by source. source: http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/23376/info The Linux kernel is prone to a denial-of-service vulnerability. This issue presents itself when malformed AppleTalk frames are processed. An attacker can exploit this issue to crash host computers, effectively...

Fedora Core 6 : kernel-2.6.20-1.2944.fc6 (2007-432)

Updated to upstream linux kernel 2.6.20.6: http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ChangeLog-2.6.20.5 http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ChangeLog-2.6.20.6 CVE-2007-1357: The atalksumskb function in AppleTalk for Linux kernel 2.6.x before 2.6.21, and possibly 2.4.x, allows remote...

Fedora Core 5 : kernel-2.6.20-1.2312.fc5 (2007-433)

Updated to upstream linux kernel 2.6.20.6: http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ChangeLog-2.6.20.5 http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ChangeLog-2.6.20.6 CVE-2007-1357: The atalksumskb function in AppleTalk for Linux kernel 2.6.x before 2.6.21, and possibly 2.4.x, allows remote...

CVE-2007-1357

The atalksumskb function in AppleTalk for Linux kernel 2.6.x before 2.6.21, and possibly 2.4.x, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service crash via an AppleTalk frame that is shorter than the specified length, which triggers a BUGON call when an attempt is made to perform a checksum...

CVE-2007-1357

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