SUSE: CVE-2018-5391: SUSE Linux Security Advisory
Description
The Linux kernel, versions 3.9+, is vulnerable to a denial of service attack with low rates of specially modified packets targeting IP fragment re-assembly. An attacker may cause a denial of service condition by sending specially crafted IP fragments. Various vulnerabilities in IP fragmentation have been discovered and fixed over the years. The current vulnerability (CVE-2018-5391) became exploitable in the Linux kernel with the increase of the IP fragment reassembly queue size.
Solution(s)
- suse-upgrade-kernel-azure-base
- suse-upgrade-kernel-default
- suse-upgrade-kernel-default-extra
- suse-upgrade-kernel-default-man
- suse-upgrade-kernel-devel-azure
- suse-upgrade-kernel-docs
- suse-upgrade-kernel-docs-azure
- suse-upgrade-kernel-obs-build
- suse-upgrade-kernel-source-azure
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