Published: 14/12/2006 Updated: 05/09/2008

CVSS v2 Base Score: 4.6 | Impact Score: 6.9 | Exploitability Score: 3.1

VMScore: 409

Vector: AV:L/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:C

Unspecified vulnerability in the "alignment check exception handling" in Ubuntu 5.10, 6.06 LTS, and 6.10 for the PowerPC (PPC) allows local users to cause a denial of service (kernel panic) via unspecified vectors.

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Mark Dowd discovered that the netfilter iptables module did not correcly handle fragmented packets By sending specially crafted packets, a remote attacker could exploit this to bypass firewall rules This has only be fixed for Ubuntu 610; the corresponding fix for Ubuntu 510 and 606 will follow soon (CVE-2006-4572) ...

Several local and remote vulnerabilities have been discovered in the Linux kernel that may lead to a denial of service or the execution of arbitrary code The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project identifies the following problems: CVE-2005-4093 Olof Johansson reported a local DoS (Denial of Service) vulnerability on the PPC970 plat ...

NVD-CWE-Other http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-395-1 http://www.us.debian.org/security/2006/dsa-1233 http://secunia.com/advisories/23361 http://secunia.com/advisories/23370 http://secunia.com/advisories/23384 http://www.us.debian.org/security/2006/dsa-1237 http://secunia.com/advisories/23395 http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2006_79_kernel.html http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/21523 http://secunia.com/advisories/23474 https://nvd.nist.gov https://usn.ubuntu.com/395-1/

CVE-2006-5649

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