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SUSE: 2013:1748-1 Critical: Kernel Denial Of Service Issue

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Calendar Grey November 22, 2013
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Urgent security patch for SUSE Linux Kernel fixes CVE-2013-2206 to avert denial of service threats. Update immediately!
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Summary

The SUSE Linux Enterprise 11 Service Pack 2 kernel was updated to version 3.0.101 and also includes various other bug and security fixes. The following features have been added: * Drivers: hv: Support handling multiple VMBUS versions (FATE#314665). * Drivers: hv: Save and export negotiated vmbus version (FATE#314665). * Drivers: hv: Move vmbus version definitions to hyperv.h (FATE#314665). The following security issue has been fixed: * CVE-2013-2206: The sctp_sf_do_5_2_4_dupcook function in net/sctp/sm_statefuns.c in the SCTP implementation in the Linux kernel did not properly handle associations during the processing of a duplicate COOKIE ECHO chunk, which allowed remote attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and system crash) or possibly

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security advisory denial of service kernel update critical SUSE CVE reference

References

#763463 #794824 #797526 #804950 #816099 #820848

#821259 #821465 #826102 #827246 #827416 #828714

#828894 #829682 #831029 #831143 #831380 #832292

#833321 #833588 #833635 #833820 #833858 #834204

#834600 #834905 #835094 #835684 #835930 #836218

#836347 #836801 #837372 #837803 #838346 #838448

#840830 #841094 #841402 #841498 #842063 #842604

#844513

Cross- CVE-2013-2206

Affected Products:

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP2 for VMware

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP2

SUSE Linux Enterprise High Availability Extension 11 SP2

SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 11 SP2

SLE 11 SERVER Unsupported Extras

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2013-2206.html

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Announcement ID: SUSE-SU-2013:1748-1
Rating: important

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