CVE-2012-2744 Information

Description

net/ipv6/netfilter/nf_conntrack_reasm.c in the Linux kernel before 2.6.34 when the nf_conntrack_ipv6 module is enabled allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and system crash) via certain types of fragmented IPv6 packets.

Reference

http://ftp.osuosl.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ChangeLog-2.6.34 http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=9e2dcf72023d1447f09c47d77c99b0c49659e5ce http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-1064.html http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-1148.html http://secunia.com/advisories/49928 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/54367 http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1027235 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=833402 https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/9e2dcf72023d1447f09c47d77c99b0c49659e5ce