Ubuntu Security Notice USN-250-1
15th February, 2006
linux-source-2.6.12 vulnerability
A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives:
- Ubuntu 5.10
Details
Herbert Xu discovered a remote Denial of Service vulnerability in the
ICMP packet handler. In some situations a memory allocation was
released twice, which led to memory corruption. A remote attacker
could exploit this to crash the machine.
Update instructions
The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package version:
- Ubuntu 5.10:
- linux-image-2.6.12-10-amd64-k8-smp
- linux-image-2.6.12-10-686
- linux-image-2.6.12-10-amd64-generic
- linux-image-2.6.12-10-powerpc-smp
- linux-patch-ubuntu-2.6.12
- linux-image-2.6.12-10-iseries-smp
- linux-image-2.6.12-10-itanium-smp
- linux-image-2.6.12-10-mckinley
- linux-image-2.6.12-10-amd64-xeon
- linux-image-2.6.12-10-k7
- linux-image-2.6.12-10-k7-smp
- linux-image-2.6.12-10-mckinley-smp
- linux-image-2.6.12-10-386
- linux-image-2.6.12-10-itanium
- linux-image-2.6.12-10-powerpc
- linux-image-2.6.12-10-amd64-k8
- linux-image-2.6.12-10-powerpc64-smp
- linux-image-2.6.12-10-686-smp
To update your system, please follow these instructions: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Security/Upgrades.
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