Secunia Security Advisory - Fedora has issued an update for the kernel. This fixes a vulnerability, which can be exploited by malicious people to cause a DoS (Denial of Service).
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TITLE:
Fedora update for kernel
SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA38168
VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/38168/
DESCRIPTION:
Fedora has issued an update for the kernel. This fixes a
vulnerability, which can be exploited by malicious people to cause a
DoS (Denial of Service).
The vulnerability is caused due to a NULL pointer dereference when
processing IPv6 "Jumbograms".
Successful exploitation requires that network namespaces are enabled.
SOLUTION:
Apply updated packages via the yum utility ("yum update kernel").
ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
FEDORA-2010-0823:
https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/F12/FEDORA-2010-0823
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