CVE-2015-6496 Information

Description

conntrackd in conntrack-tools 1.4.2 and earlier does not ensure that the optional kernel modules are loaded before using them which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via a (1) DCCP (2) SCTP or (3) ICMPv6 packet.

Reference

http://bugzilla.netfilter.org/show_bug.cgi?id=910 http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2016-January/174875.html http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2016-January/174883.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-10/msg00015.html http://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3341 http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/08/14/4 http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/08/18/1 https://git.netfilter.org/conntrack-tools/commit/?id=c392c159605956c7bd4a264ab4490e2b2704c0cd