Ubuntu Security Notice 4017-1 - Jonathan Looney discovered that the TCP retransmission queue implementation in the Linux kernel could be fragmented when handling certain TCP Selective Acknowledgment sequences. A remote attacker could use this to cause a denial of service. Jonathan Looney discovered that an integer overflow existed in the Linux kernel when handling TCP Selective Acknowledgments. A remote attacker could use this to cause a denial of service. Various other issues were also addressed.
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