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kernel: denial of service

Package(s):kernel CVE #(s):CVE-2006-2935 CVE-2006-4145 CVE-2006-3745
Created:September 1, 2006 Updated:July 30, 2008
Description: Previous versions of the kernel package are subject to several vulnerabilities. Certain malformed UDF filesystems can cause the system to crash (denial of service). Malformed CDROM firmware or USB storage devices (such as USB keys) could cause system crash (denial of service), and if they were intentionally malformed, can cause arbitrary code to run with elevated privileges. In addition, the SCTP protocol is subject to a remote system crash (denial of service) attack.
Alerts:
Red Hat RHSA-2008:0665-01 2008-07-24
SuSE SUSE-SA:2007:053 2007-10-12
SuSE SUSE-SA:2006:064 2006-11-10
Red Hat RHSA-2006:0710-01 2006-10-19
SuSE SUSE-SA:2006:057 2006-09-28
Trustix TSLSA-2006-0051 2006-09-15
Ubuntu USN-346-2 2006-09-14
Ubuntu USN-346-1 2006-09-14
rPath rPSA-2006-0162-1 2006-08-31

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