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Trustix Secure Linux Security Advisory 2006.40

Trustix Secure Linux Security Advisory 2006.40
Posted Jul 9, 2006
Authored by Trustix | Site http.trustix.org

Trustix Secure Linux Security Advisory #2006-0040: SCTP conntrack (ip_conntrack_proto_sctp.c) in netfilter allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via a packet without any chunks, which causes a variable to contain an invalid value that is later used to dereference a pointer.

tags | advisory, remote, denial of service
systems | linux
advisories | CVE-2006-2934
SHA-256 | d316dab38203d31e0d63c87286a8aef0c2a6e3a801a4cbbd588988864dd3a035

Trustix Secure Linux Security Advisory 2006.40

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Trustix Secure Linux Security Advisory #2006-0040

Package names: kernel
Summary: Multiple vulnerabilities
Date: 2006-07-07
Affected versions: Trustix Secure Linux 3.0

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Package description:
kernel
The kernel package contains the Linux kernel (vmlinuz), the core of
your Trustix Secure Linux operating system. The kernel handles the
basic functions of the operating system: memory allocation, process
allocation, device input and output, etc.

Problem description:
kernel < TSL 3.0 >
- New upstream.
- SECURITY FIX: SCTP conntrack (ip_conntrack_proto_sctp.c) in
netfilter allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service
(crash) via a packet without any chunks, which causes a variable
to contain an invalid value that is later used to dereference a
pointer.

The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project (cve.mitre.org)
has assigned the name CVE-2006-2934 to this issue.

Action:
We recommend that all systems with this package installed be upgraded.
Please note that if you do not need the functionality provided by this
package, you may want to remove it from your system.


Location:
All Trustix Secure Linux updates are available from
<URI:http://http.trustix.org/pub/trustix/updates/>
<URI:ftp://ftp.trustix.org/pub/trustix/updates/>


About Trustix Secure Linux:
Trustix Secure Linux is a small Linux distribution for servers. With focus
on security and stability, the system is painlessly kept safe and up to
date from day one using swup, the automated software updater.


Automatic updates:
Users of the SWUP tool can enjoy having updates automatically
installed using 'swup --upgrade'.


Questions?
Check out our mailing lists:
<URI:http://www.trustix.org/support/>


Verification:
This advisory along with all Trustix packages are signed with the
TSL sign key.
This key is available from:
<URI:http://www.trustix.org/TSL-SIGN-KEY>

The advisory itself is available from the errata pages at
<URI:http://www.trustix.org/errata/trustix-2.2/> and
<URI:http://www.trustix.org/errata/trustix-3.0/>
or directly at
<URI:http://www.trustix.org/errata/2006/0040/>


MD5sums of the packages:
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ca9e4c250323d1daf972457c0a207db7 3.0/rpms/kernel-2.6.17.3-1tr.i586.rpm
dcc2f068e20b38fa4755c038c8b386c7 3.0/rpms/kernel-doc-2.6.17.3-1tr.i586.rpm
641514c3081e4411da0b4971d430e01d 3.0/rpms/kernel-headers-2.6.17.3-1tr.i586.rpm
1efb4a2e2dd1826f411fbc75230af4f2 3.0/rpms/kernel-smp-2.6.17.3-1tr.i586.rpm
a3938388854868901d3459e102439990 3.0/rpms/kernel-smp-headers-2.6.17.3-1tr.i586.rpm
c73df63969c9a5cd86fc7c56b5cc2a6c 3.0/rpms/kernel-source-2.6.17.3-1tr.i586.rpm
47765e9b72a8bda650fe78ea3b432fdd 3.0/rpms/kernel-utils-2.6.17.3-1tr.i586.rpm
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Trustix Security Team
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