Suse warns of hole in Linux kernel

[Justin Conover]

A secuirty hole that is in a firewall, ironic don't you think ;-)


On Thu, 28 Oct 2004 10:23:23 -0700, Darren Critchley <darrenc at telus.net> wrote:
> Ecmel Ercan wrote:
> 
> >http://www.osnews.com/comment.php?news_id=8693
> >
> >Thank god Ubuntu does not have firewall!
> >
> >..
> >
> >"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."
> >
> >..
> >
> >
> Dev's have already fixed this in Ubuntu anyways. I posted this earlier
> this week when it was news.
> 
> Darren
> 
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