Mandrake Linux Security Advisory : kernel (MDKSA-2006:197)

Some vulnerabilities were discovered and corrected in the Linux 2.6 kernel : Bugs in the netfilter for IPv6 code, as reported by Mark Dowd, were fixed CVE-2006-4572. The ATM subsystem of the Linux kernel could allow a remote attacker to cause a Denial of Service panic via unknown vectors that cau...

CVE-2006-4572

CVE-2006-4572 concerns the Linux kernel’s netfilter ip6_tables. Affects the IPv6 tables implementation in versions prior to 2.6.16.31, allowing remote attackers to bypass security rules: (1) a protocol-disallow rule via a fragment header-adjacent protocol header, and (2) a header-extension rule v...