USN-395-1: Linux kernel vulnerabilities

Mark Dowd discovered that the netfilter iptables module did not correcly handle fragmented packets. By sending specially crafted packets, a remote attacker could exploit this to bypass firewall rules. This has only be fixed for Ubuntu 6.10; the corresponding fix for Ubuntu 5.10 and 6.06 will foll...

CVE-2006-5619

The seqfile handling ip6flgetn function in ip6flowlabel.c in Linux kernel 2.6 up to 2.6.18-stable allows local users to cause a denial of service hang or oops via unspecified manipulations that trigger an infinite loop while searching for flowlabels...

CVE-2006-5619

The seqfile handling ip6flgetn function in ip6flowlabel.c in Linux kernel 2.6 up to 2.6.18-stable allows local users to cause a denial of service hang or oops via unspecified manipulations that trigger an infinite loop while searching for flowlabels...