Ubuntu 11.10 / 12.04 LTS : nova regression (USN-1466-2)

USN 1466-1 fixed a vulnerability in Nova. The upstream patch introduced a regression when a security group granted full access and therefore the network protocol was left unset, causing an error in processing. This update fixes the issue. We apologize for the inconvenience. It was discovered that...

CVE-2006-4572

ip6tables in netfilter in the Linux kernel before 2.6.16.31 allows remote attackers to 1 bypass a rule that disallows a protocol, via a packet with the protocol header not located immediately after the fragment header, aka "ip6tables protocol bypass bug;" and 2 bypass a rule that looks for a...

CVE-2006-4572

CVE-2006-4572 concerns the Linux kernel’s netfilter ip6_tables. Affects the IPv6 tables implementation in versions prior to 2.6.16.31, allowing remote attackers to bypass security rules: (1) a protocol-disallow rule via a fragment header-adjacent protocol header, and (2) a header-extension rule v...