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kernel: denial of service

Package(s):kernel CVE #(s):CVE-2007-6282 CVE-2007-6712
Created:May 20, 2008 Updated:August 27, 2008
Description: From the Red Hat advisory: The possibility of a kernel crash was found in the Linux kernel IPsec protocol implementation, due to improper handling of fragmented ESP packets. When an attacker controlling an intermediate router fragmented these packets into very small pieces, it would cause a kernel crash on the receiving node during packet reassembly. (CVE-2007-6282) Also, on 64-bit architectures, the possibility of a timer-expiration value overflow was found in the Linux kernel high-resolution timers functionality, hrtimer. This could allow a local unprivileged user to setup a large interval value, forcing the timer expiry value to become negative, causing a denial of service (kernel hang). (CVE-2007-6712)
Alerts:
Red Hat RHSA-2008:0585-01 2008-08-26
Debian DSA-1630-1 2008-08-21
Ubuntu USN-625-1 2008-07-15
SuSE SUSE-SA:2008:032 2008-07-07
SuSE SUSE-SA:2008:031 2008-07-02
SuSE SUSE-SA:2008:030 2008-06-20
Debian DSA-1588-2 2008-05-30
Debian DSA-1588-1 2008-05-27
CentOS CESA-2008:0275 2008-05-21
Red Hat RHSA-2008:0275-01 2008-05-20

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