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

An update for kernel is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 Extended Lifecycle Support. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Important. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for...

CVE-2017-1000112

Linux kernel: Exploitable memory corruption due to UFO to non-UFO path switch. When building a UFO packet with MSGMORE ipappenddata calls ipufoappenddata to append. However in between two send calls, the append path can be switched from UFO to non-UFO one, which leads to a memory corruption. In...

Linux kernel: Exploitable memory corruption due to UFO to non-UFO path switch(CVE-2017-1000112)

Bug details When building a UFO packet with MSGMORE ipappenddata calls ipufoappenddata to append. However in between two send calls, the append path can be switched from UFO to non-UFO one, which leads to a memory corruption. In case UFO packet lengths exceeds MTU, copy = maxfraglen - skb-len...

CVE-2017-1000112

Linux kernel: Exploitable memory corruption due to UFO to non-UFO path switch. When building a UFO packet with MSGMORE ipappenddata calls ipufoappenddata to append. However in between two send calls, the append path can be switched from UFO to non-UFO one, which leads to a memory corruption. In...