Suse warns of hole in Linux kernel

[Darren Critchley]

Ecmel Ercan wrote:

>http://www.osnews.com/comment.php?news_id=8693
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>Thank god Ubuntu does not have firewall!
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>"The problem lies in the way the kernel handles iptables firewall logging,
>and only affects systems with iptables-based firewalls, such as
>SUSEfirewall2, Suse said. An attacker could use a malformed packet to shut
>down the system, according to Suse's advisory, which ranked the bug nine
>out of 10 in severity."
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Dev's have already fixed this in Ubuntu anyways. I posted this earlier 
this week when it was news.

Darren