DSA-3341-1 conntrack -- security update

Debian Security Advisory

DSA-3341-1 conntrack -- security update

Date Reported:

20 Aug 2015

Affected Packages:

conntrack

Vulnerable:

Yes

Security database references:

In the Debian bugtracking system: Bug 796103.
In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2015-6496.

More information:

It was discovered that in certain configurations, if the relevant conntrack kernel module is not loaded, conntrackd will crash when handling DCCP, SCTP or ICMPv6 packets.

For the oldstable distribution (wheezy), this problem has been fixed in version 1:1.2.1-1+deb7u1.

For the stable distribution (jessie), this problem has been fixed in version 1:1.4.2-2+deb8u1.

For the unstable distribution (sid), this problem has been fixed in version 1:1.4.2-3.

We recommend that you upgrade your conntrack packages.