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ELSA-2007-0376 Important: Enterprise Linux kernel security and bug fix update

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ELSA-2007-0376 Important: Enterprise Linux kernel security and bug fix update

Severity

CVSS

(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C)

Published

04/24/2007

Created

07/25/2018

Added

12/20/2011

Modified

06/21/2018

Description

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.

Solution(s)

oracle-linux-upgrade-kernel
oracle-linux-upgrade-kernel-devel
oracle-linux-upgrade-kernel-doc
oracle-linux-upgrade-kernel-headers
oracle-linux-upgrade-kernel-pae
oracle-linux-upgrade-kernel-pae-devel
oracle-linux-upgrade-kernel-xen
oracle-linux-upgrade-kernel-xen-devel
oracle-linux-upgrade-ocfs2
oracle-linux-upgrade-oracleasm

References

https://attackerkb.com/topics/cve-2006-7203
23594
23870
CVE - 2006-7203
CVE - 2007-1353
CVE - 2007-2525
DSA-1356
DSA-1503
DSA-1504
OVAL10594
OVAL10626
OVAL10941
RHSA-2007:0376
RHSA-2007:0488
RHSA-2007:0671
RHSA-2007:0672
RHSA-2007:0673
SUSE-SA:2007:035
SUSE-SA:2007:043
SUSE-SA:2007:051
SUSE-SA:2007:053
http://oss.oracle.com/pipermail/el-errata/2007-June/000191.html
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