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...

CVE-2007-2453

CVE-2007-2453 concerns the Linux kernel RNG. Affected: Linux kernel 2.6 before 2.6.20.13 and 2.6.21.x before 2.6.21.4. Root cause: the entropy pool was not properly seeded when no entropy source, and entropy was extracted using an incorrect cast, which might cause the RNG to produce identical val...