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Fedora 23: FEDORA-2016-2bff7g6h1a Critical: IP Tables Vulnerability Alert

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Calendar Grey January 3, 2016
Dist Fedora Esm H88
The latest patch for conntrack-tools resolves a critical bug causing crashes and addresses multiple memory leaks, thereby strengthening the network security framework in Fedora 22.
Addresses a crasher (CVE-2015-6496) and various leaks

Summary

With conntrack-tools you can setup a High Availability cluster and

synchronize conntrack state between multiple firewalls.

The conntrack-tools package contains two programs:

- conntrack: the command line interface to interact with the connection

tracking system.

- conntrackd: the connection tracking userspace daemon that can be used to

deploy highly available GNU/Linux firewalls and collect

statistics of the firewall use.

conntrack is used to search, list, inspect and maintain the netfilter

connection tracking subsystem of the Linux kernel.

Using conntrack, you can dump a list of all (or a filtered selection of)

currently tracked connections, delete connections from the state table,

and even add new ones.

In addition, you can also monitor connection tracking events, e.g.

show an event message (one line) per newly established connection.

Update Information:

Addresses a crasher (CVE-2015-6496) and various leaks

Change Log

References


[ 1 ] Bug #1253755 - CVE-2015-6496 conntrackd crash on unexpected network traffic https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1253755

Update Instructions

This update can be installed with the "yum" update program. Use su -c 'yum update conntrack-tools' at the command line. For more information, refer to "Managing Software with yum", available at .

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Name: conntrack-tools
Product: Fedora 22
Version: 1.4.2
Release: 9.fc22
Summary: Manipulate netfilter connection tracking table and run High Availability

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