Debian Security Advisory DSA 1103-1 (kernel-source-2.6.8)

The remote host is missing an update to kernel-source-2.6.8 announced via advisory DSA 1103-1. OpenVAS Vulnerability Test $Id: deb11031.nasl 6616 2017-07-07 12:10:49Z cfischer $ Description: Auto-generated from advisory DSA 1103-1 Authors: Thomas Reinke Copyright: Copyright c 2007 E-Soft Inc...

Debian: Security Advisory (DSA-1103)

The remote host is missing an update for the Debian SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2008 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only ifdescription...

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...

CVE-2006-1857

The CVE-2006-1857 entry describes a buffer overflow in the SCTP implementation of the Linux kernel up to version 2.6.16.17. A remote attacker could trigger this via a malformed HB-ACK chunk, potentially causing a crash (DoS) and possibly executing arbitrary code. A fix is available in kernel 2.6....