SCTP conntrack (ip_conntrack_proto_sctp.c) in netfilter for Linux kernel 2.6.17 before 2.6.17.3 and 2.6.16 before 2.6.16.23 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.

A Denial of service vulnerability was reported in iptables' SCTP conntrack module. On computers which use this iptables module, a remote attacker could exploit this to trigger a kernel crash.
(CVE-2006-2934)

A buffer overflow has been discovered in the dvd_read_bca() function.
By inserting a specially crafted DVD, USB stick, or similar automatically mounted removable device, a local user could crash the machine or potentially even execute arbitrary code with full root privileges. (CVE-2006-2935)

The ftdi_sio driver for serial USB ports did not limit the amount of pending data to be written. A local user could exploit this to drain all available kernel memory and thus render the system unusable.
(CVE-2006-2936)

James McKenzie discovered a Denial of Service vulnerability in the NFS driver. When exporting an ext3 file system over NFS, a remote attacker could exploit this to trigger a file system panic by sending a specially crafted UDP packet. (CVE-2006-3468)

Wei Wang of McAfee Avert Labs discovered a buffer overflow in the sctp_make_abort_user() function of iptables' SCTP module. On computers which use this module, a local attacker could exploit this to execute arbitrary code with root privileges. (CVE-2006-3745)

Olof Johansson discovered that the kernel did not disable the 'HID0' bit on PowerPC 970 processors so that the ATTN instruction was enabled. A local user could exploit this to crash the kernel. This flaw only affects the powerpc architecture. (CVE-2006-4093)

The UDF file system does not handle extends larger than 1 GB, but did not check for this restriction on truncating files. A local user could exploit this to crash the kernel. (CVE-2006-4145).

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Ubuntu security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

A Denial of service vulnerability was reported in iptables' SCTP conntrack module. On computers which use this iptables module, a remote attacker could exploit this to trigger a kernel crash.
(CVE-2006-2934)

A buffer overflow has been discovered in the dvd_read_bca() function.
By inserting a specially crafted DVD, USB stick, or similar automatically mounted removable device, a local user could crash the machine or potentially even execute arbitrary code with full root privileges. (CVE-2006-2935)

The ftdi_sio driver for serial USB ports did not limit the amount of pending data to be written. A local user could exploit this to drain all available kernel memory and thus render the system unusable.
(CVE-2006-2936)

Additionally, this update fixes a range of bugs.

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Ubuntu security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

A number of vulnerabilities were discovered and corrected in the Linux 2.6 kernel :

Prior to and including 2.6.16-rc2, when running on x86_64 systems with preemption enabled, local users can cause a DoS (oops) via multiple ptrace tasks that perform single steps (CVE-2006-1066).

Prior to 2.6.16, a directory traversal vulnerability in CIFS could allow a local user to escape chroot restrictions for an SMB-mounted filesystem via '..\' sequences (CVE-2006-1863).

Prior to 2.6.16, a directory traversal vulnerability in smbfs could allow a local user to escape chroot restrictions for an SMB-mounted filesystem via '..\' sequences (CVE-2006-1864).

Prior to to 2.6.16.23, SCTP conntrack in netfilter allows remote attackers to cause a DoS (crash) via a packet without any chunks, causing a variable to contain an invalid value that is later used to dereference a pointer (CVE-2006-2934).

The dvd_read_bca function in the DVD handling code assigns the wrong value to a length variable, which could allow local users to execute arbitrary code via a crafted USB storage device that triggers a buffer overflow (CVE-2006-2935).

Prior to 2.6.17, the ftdi_sio driver could allow local users to cause a DoS (memory consumption) by writing more data to the serial port than the hardware can handle, causing the data to be queued (CVE-2006-2936).

The 2.6 kernel, when using both NFS and EXT3, allowed remote attackers to cause a DoS (file system panic) via a crafted UDP packet with a V2 lookup procedure that specifies a bad file handle (inode number), triggering an error and causing an exported directory to be remounted read-only (CVE-2006-3468).

The 2.6 kernel's SCTP was found to cause system crashes and allow for the possibility of local privilege escalation due to a bug in the get_user_iov_size() function that doesn't properly handle overflow when calculating the length of iovec (CVE-2006-3745).

The provided packages are patched to fix these vulnerabilities. All users are encouraged to upgrade to these updated kernels immediately and reboot to effect the fixes.

In addition to these security fixes, other fixes have been included such as :

  - added support for new devices: o Testo products in     usb-serial o ATI SB600 IDE o ULI M-1573 south Bridge o     PATA and SATA support for nVidia MCP55, MCP61, MCP65,     and AMD CS5536 o Asus W6A motherboard in snd-hda-intel o     bcm 5780

  - fixed ip_gre module unload OOPS

    - enabled opti621 driver for x86 and x86_64

    - fixed a local DoS introduced by an imcomplete fix for       CVE-2006-2445

    - updated to Xen 3.0.1 with selected fixes

    - enable hugetlbfs

To update your kernel, please follow the directions located at :

http://www.mandriva.com/en/security/kernelupdate

Updated kernel packages are now available as part of ongoing support and maintenance of Red Hat Enterprise Linux version 4.

This update has been rated as having important security impact by the Red Hat Security Response Team.

The Linux kernel handles the basic functions of the operating system.

This is the fourth regular update to Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4.

New features introduced in this update include :

* Device Mapper mirroring support

* IDE diskdump support

* x86, AMD64 and Intel EM64T: Multi-core scheduler support enhancements

* Itanium: perfmon support for Montecito

* much improved support for IBM x460

* AMD PowerNow! patches to support Opteron Rev G

* Vmalloc support > 64MB

The following device drivers have been upgraded to new versions :

ipmi: 33.11 to 33.13 ib_mthca: 0.06 to 0.08 bnx2: 1.4.30 to 1.4.38 bonding: 2.6.1 to 2.6.3 e100: 3.4.8-k2-NAPI to 3.5.10-k2-NAPI e1000:
6.1.16-k3-NAPI to 7.0.33-k2-NAPI sky2: 0.13 to 1.1 tg3: 3.43-rh to 3.52-rh ipw2100: 1.1.0 to git-1.1.4 ipw2200: 1.0.0 to git-1.0.10 3w-9xxx: 2.26.02.001 to 2.26.04.010 ips: 7.10.18 to 7.12.02 iscsi_sfnet: 4:0.1.11-2 to 4:0.1.11-3 lpfc: 0:8.0.16.18 to 0:8.0.16.27 megaraid_sas: 00.00.02.00 to 00.00.02.03-RH1 qla2xxx: 8.01.02-d4 to 8.01.04-d7 qla6312: 8.01.02-d4 to 8.01.04-d7 sata_promise: 1.03 to 1.04 sata_vsc: 1.1 to 1.2 ibmvscsic: 1.5.5 to 1.5.6 ipr: 2.0.11.1 to 2.0.11.2

Added drivers :

dcdbas: 5.6.0-2 sata_mv: 0.6 sata_qstor: 0.05 sata_uli: 0.5 skge: 1.1 stex: 2.9.0.13 pdc_adma: 0.03

This update includes fixes for the security issues :

* a flaw in the USB devio handling of device removal that allowed a local user to cause a denial of service (crash) (CVE-2005-3055, moderate)

* a flaw in the ACL handling of nfsd that allowed a remote user to bypass ACLs for readonly mounted NFS file systems (CVE-2005-3623, moderate)

* a flaw in the netfilter handling that allowed a local user with CAP_NET_ADMIN rights to cause a buffer overflow (CVE-2006-0038, low)

* a flaw in the IBM S/390 and IBM zSeries strnlen_user() function that allowed a local user to cause a denial of service (crash) or to retrieve random kernel data (CVE-2006-0456, important)

* a flaw in the keyctl functions that allowed a local user to cause a denial of service (crash) or to read sensitive kernel memory (CVE-2006-0457, important)

* a flaw in unaligned accesses handling on Itanium processors that allowed a local user to cause a denial of service (crash) (CVE-2006-0742, important)

* a flaw in SELinux ptrace logic that allowed a local user with ptrace permissions to change the tracer SID to a SID of another process (CVE-2006-1052, moderate)

* an info leak on AMD-based x86 and x86_64 systems that allowed a local user to retrieve the floating point exception state of a process run by a different user (CVE-2006-1056, important)

* a flaw in IPv4 packet output handling that allowed a remote user to bypass the zero IP ID countermeasure on systems with a disabled firewall (CVE-2006-1242, low)

* a minor info leak in socket option handling in the network code (CVE-2006-1343, low)

* a flaw in the HB-ACK chunk handling of SCTP that allowed a remote user to cause a denial of service (crash) (CVE-2006-1857, moderate)

* a flaw in the SCTP implementation that allowed a remote user to cause a denial of service (deadlock) (CVE-2006-2275, moderate)

* a flaw in the socket buffer handling that allowed a remote user to cause a denial of service (panic) (CVE-2006-2446, important)

* a flaw in the signal handling access checking on PowerPC that allowed a local user to cause a denial of service (crash) or read arbitrary kernel memory on 64-bit systems (CVE-2006-2448, important)

* a flaw in the netfilter SCTP module when receiving a chunkless packet that allowed a remote user to cause a denial of service (crash) (CVE-2006-2934, important)

There were several bug fixes in various parts of the kernel. The ongoing effort to resolve these problems has resulted in a marked improvement in the reliability and scalability of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4.

There is a flaw in the Linux kernel on the remote host that causes a kernel panic when it receives an SCTP packet with a chunk data packet of length 0. An attacker can leverage this flaw to crash the remote host. Additionally, other types of crafted packets can cause a remote denial of service in various SCTP related functions.

Note that successful exploitation of this issue requires that the kernel support SCTP protocol connection tracking.

The remote CentOS system is missing a security update which has been documented in Red Hat advisory RHSA-2006-0575.

ID	Name	Product	Family	Severity
27925	Ubuntu 5.04 / 5.10 / 6.06 LTS : linux-source-2.6.10/-2.6.12/-2.6.15 vulnerabilities (USN-346-1)	Nessus	Ubuntu Local Security Checks	high
27910	Ubuntu 6.06 LTS : linux-source-2.6.15 vulnerabilities (USN-331-1)	Nessus	Ubuntu Local Security Checks	high
23897	Mandrake Linux Security Advisory : kernel (MDKSA-2006:151)	Nessus	Mandriva Local Security Checks	high
22276	CentOS 4 : kernel (CESA-2006:0575)	Nessus	CentOS Local Security Checks	high
22221	RHEL 4 : kernel (RHSA-2006:0575)	Nessus	Red Hat Local Security Checks	high
21333	Linux SCTP Functionality Multiple Remote DoS	Nessus	Denial of Service	high
801420	CentOS RHSA-2006-0575 Security Check	Log Correlation Engine	Generic	high

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