Mandriva Update for kernel MDKSA-2007:171 (kernel)

Check for the Version of kernel OpenVAS Vulnerability Test Mandriva Update for kernel MDKSA-2007:171 kernel Authors: System Generated Check Copyright: Copyright c 2009 Greenbone Networks GmbH, http://www.greenbone.net This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under t...

SuSE Security Update: Kernel Update for SUSE Linux 10.1 (kernel-4193)

This kernel update brings the kernel to the one shipped with SLES 10 Service Pack 1 and also fixes the following security problems: - CVE-2007-2242: The IPv6 protocol allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service via crafted IPv6 type 0 route headers IPV6RTHDRTYPE0 that create network...

Mandrake Linux Security Advisory : kernel (MDKSA-2007:171)

Some vulnerabilities were discovered and corrected in the Linux 2.6 kernel : The Linux kernel did not properly save or restore EFLAGS during a context switch, or reset the flags when creating new threads, which allowed local users to cause a denial of service process crash CVE-2006-5755. The...

PPPoE socket PPPIOCGCHAN denial of service

Memory leak in the PPP over Ethernet PPPoE socket implementation in the Linux kernel before 2.6.21-git8 allows local users to cause a denial of service memory consumption by creating a socket using connect, and releasing it before the PPPIOCGCHAN ioctl is initialized...