USN-250-1: Linux kernel vulnerability

15 February 2006

Linux kernel vulnerability

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Details

Herbert Xu discovered a remote Denial of Service vulnerability in the
ICMP packet handler. In some situations a memory allocation was
released twice, which led to memory corruption. A remote attacker
could exploit this to crash the machine.

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Update instructions

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:

Ubuntu 5.10
  • linux-image-2.6.12-10-amd64-k8-smp -
  • linux-image-2.6.12-10-686 -
  • linux-image-2.6.12-10-amd64-generic -
  • linux-image-2.6.12-10-powerpc-smp -
  • linux-patch-ubuntu-2.6.12 -
  • linux-image-2.6.12-10-iseries-smp -
  • linux-image-2.6.12-10-itanium-smp -
  • linux-image-2.6.12-10-686-smp -
  • linux-image-2.6.12-10-mckinley -
  • linux-image-2.6.12-10-amd64-xeon -
  • linux-image-2.6.12-10-k7 -
  • linux-image-2.6.12-10-k7-smp -
  • linux-image-2.6.12-10-mckinley-smp -
  • linux-image-2.6.12-10-itanium -
  • linux-image-2.6.12-10-powerpc -
  • linux-image-2.6.12-10-amd64-k8 -
  • linux-image-2.6.12-10-powerpc64-smp -
  • linux-image-2.6.12-10-386 -

In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary changes.

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