SUSE-SA:2006:006: kernel

The remote host is missing the patch for the advisory SUSE-SA:2006:006 kernel. The Linux kernel on SUSE Linux 10.0 has been updated to fix following security problems: - CVE-2006-0454: An extra dst release when ipoptionsecho failed was fixed. This problem could be triggered by remote attackers an...

Fedora Core 4 : kernel-2.6.15-1.1831_FC4 (2006-102)

This update fixes a remotely exploitable denial of service attack in the icmp networking code CVE-2006-0454. An information leak has also been fixed CVE-2006-0095, and some debugging patches that had accidentally been left applied in the previous update have been removed, restoring the...

CVE-2006-0454

The CVE-2006-0454 issue affects the Linux kernel (2.6.x) where icmp_send mishandles failures in ip_options_echo, enabling remote attackers to crash the host via crafted ICMP options (record-route, timestamp with needaddr and truncated value). Public advisories from SUSE, Red Hat, Fedora, Ubuntu d...