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ELSA-2008-1017 Important: Enterprise Linux kernel security and bug fix update

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ELSA-2008-1017 Important: Enterprise Linux kernel security and bug fix update

Severity

CVSS

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

Published

11/09/2007

Created

07/25/2018

Added

12/20/2011

Modified

06/21/2018

Description

sctp in Linux kernel before 2.6.25.18 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (OOPS) via an INIT-ACK that states the peer does not support AUTH, which causes the sctp_process_init function to clean up active transports and triggers the OOPS when the T1-Init timer expires.

Solution(s)

oracle-linux-upgrade-kernel
oracle-linux-upgrade-kernel-debug
oracle-linux-upgrade-kernel-debug-devel
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-ofa
oracle-linux-upgrade-oracleasm

References

https://attackerkb.com/topics/cve-2007-5907
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31634
31792
31903
CVE - 2007-5907
CVE - 2008-3831
CVE - 2008-4554
CVE - 2008-4576
DSA-1655
DSA-1681
DSA-1687
OVAL10380
OVAL11142
OVAL11542
OVAL9822
RHSA-2008:0957
RHSA-2008:1017
RHSA-2009:0009
SUSE-SA:2008:052
SUSE-SA:2008:053
SUSE-SA:2009:030
http://oss.oracle.com/pipermail/el-errata/2008-December/000838.html
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