F5 Networks BIG-IP : Linux kernel SCTP vulnerability (K37510383)

The sctpinit function in net/sctp/protocol.c in the Linux kernel before 4.2.3 has an incorrect sequence of protocol-initialization steps, which allows local users to cause a denial of service panic or memory corruption by creating SCTP sockets before all of the steps have finished. CVE-2015-5283 ...

openSUSE Security Update : the Linux Kernel (openSUSE-2015-686)

The openSUSE 13.2 kernel was updated to receive various security and bugfixes. Following security bugs were fixed : - CVE-2015-3290: arch/x86/entry/entry64.S in the Linux kernel on the x8664 platform improperly relied on espfix64 during nested NMI processing, which allowed local users to gain...

Memory corruption

The sctpinit function in net/sctp/protocol.c in the Linux kernel before 4.2.3 has an incorrect sequence of protocol-initialization steps, which allows local users to cause a denial of service panic or memory corruption by creating SCTP sockets before all of the steps have finished...