Denial Of Service (DoS)

The kernel package is vulnerable to Denial Of Service DoS.A flaw was found in the Realtek r8169 Ethernet driver in the Linux kernel. pciunmapsingle presented a memory leak that could lead to IOMMU space exhaustion and a system crash. An attacker on the local network could abuse this flaw by using...

Scientific Linux Security Update : kernel on SL5.x i386/x86_64

CVE-2009-2695 kernel: SELinux and mmapminaddr CVE-2009-3228 kernel: tc: uninitialised kernel memory leak CVE-2009-3286 kernel: OEXCL creates on NFSv4 are broken CVE-2009-2908 kernel ecryptfs NULL pointer dereference CVE-2009-3613 kernel: flood ping cause out-of-iommu error and panic when mtu larg...

RedHat Security Advisory RHSA-2009:1671

The remote host is missing updates announced in advisory RHSA-2009:1671. The kernel packages contain the Linux kernel, the core of any Linux operating system. This update fixes the following security issues: a flaw was found in the Realtek r8169 Ethernet driver in the Linux kernel. pciunmapsingle...

Important: Red Hat Security Advisory: rhev-hypervisor security and bug fix update

An updated rhev-hypervisor package that fixes security issues and several bugs is now available. This update has been rated as having important security impact by the Red Hat Security Response Team. The rhev-hypervisor package provides a Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization RHEV Hypervisor ISO disk...

SuSE 10 Security Update : the Linux Kernel (i386) (ZYPP Patch Number 6726)

This update fixes a several security issues and various bugs in the SUSE Linux Enterprise 10 SP 2 kernel. The following security issues were fixed: CVE-2009-3939: A sysctl variable of the megaraidsas driver was worldwriteable, allowing local users to cause a denial of service or potential code...

Design/Logic Flaw

The swiotlb functionality in the r8169 driver in drivers/net/r8169.c in the Linux kernel before 2.6.27.22 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service IOMMU space exhaustion and system crash by using jumbo frames for a large amount of network traffic, as demonstrated by a flood ping...

CVE-2009-3613

The swiotlb functionality in the r8169 driver in drivers/net/r8169.c in the Linux kernel before 2.6.27.22 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service IOMMU space exhaustion and system crash by using jumbo frames for a large amount of network traffic, as demonstrated by a flood ping...

PT-2009-5890 · Linux +1 · Linux Kernel +1

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions: Linux kernel versions prior to 2.6.27.22 Description: The issue allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service, resulting in IOMMU space exhaustion and system crash. This can be achieved by using jumbo frames for a large amount of netwo...