DoS attacks (ICMPv6-based) resulting from IPv6 EH drops

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Folks, Ten days ago or so we published this I-D: http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-gont-v6ops-ipv6-ehs-in-real-world-00.txt Section 5.2 of the I-D discusses a possible attack vector based on a combination of "forged" ICMPv6 PTB messages and IP...

PT-2010-3515 · Microsoft · Windows Vista +3

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions: Microsoft Windows Vista versions SP1 through SP2 Microsoft Windows Server 2008 versions Gold through R2 Microsoft Windows 7 Description: A denial of service issue exists due to improper handling of malformed IPv6 packets by the TCP/IP stack...

Important: Red Hat Security Advisory: kernel security and bug fix update

Updated kernel packages that fix multiple security issues and several bugs are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.2 Extended Update Support. This update has been rated as having important security impact by the Red Hat Security Response Team. The kernel packages contain the Linux kernel...

Fix ipv6 exthdr bug causing Oops

The selinuxparseskbipv6 function in security/selinux/hooks.c in the Linux kernel before 2.6.12-rc4 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service OOPS via vectors associated with an incorrect call to the ipv6skipexthdr function...