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Mandriva: Subject: [Security Announce] [ MDVSA-2008:167 ] kernel

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LinuxSecurity.com: Some vulnerabilities were discovered and corrected in the Linux 2.6 kernel: Memory leak in the ipip6_rcv function in net/ipv6/sit.c in the Linux kernel before 2.6.25.3 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) via network traffic to a Simple Internet Transition (SIT) tunnel interface, related to the pskb_may_pull and kfree_skb functions, and management of an skb reference count. (CVE-2008-2136) T




Original Source: http://www.linuxsecurity.com/content/view/141149?rdf

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