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-2006-2275

CVE-2006-2275 affects the SCTP (lksctp) implementation in Linux kernels prior to the 2.6.17 release. The issue allows a remote attacker to cause a Denial of Service (deadlock) by sending a large number of small messages to a receiver application that cannot process them quickly enough, resulting ...