DEBIAN-CVE-2015-5283

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...

Ubuntu Update for linux vulnerabilities USN-1080-1

Ubuntu Update for Linux kernel vulnerabilities USN-1080-1 OpenVAS Vulnerability Test $Id: gbubuntuUSN10801.nasl 7964 2017-12-01 07:32:11Z santu $ Ubuntu Update for linux vulnerabilities USN-1080-1 Authors: System Generated Check Copyright: Copyright c 2011 Greenbone Networks GmbH,...

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...