EUVD-2011-1925

Malware in sbrugna...

Null pointer dereference

The ipexpire function in net/ipv4/ipfragment.c in the Linux kernel before 2.6.39 does not properly construct ICMPTIMEEXCEEDED packets after a timeout, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service invalid pointer dereference via crafted fragmented packets...

CVE-2011-1927

The CVE-2011-1927 entry concerns the Linux kernel: the ip_expire function in net/ipv4/ip_fragment.c before 2.6.39 fails to properly construct ICMP_TIME_EXCEEDED after a timeout, allowing remote attackers to trigger a NULL pointer dereference and crash parts of the kernel via crafted fragmented pa...