[Ksplice-Fedora-19-updates] Remote denial-of-service update available for CVE-2014-5077

[Quentin Casasnovas]

Synopsis: Early update for remote denial-of-service in SCTP stack:
CVE-2014-5077.

We felt that it's important to ship this update early, before distributions
released kernels that fix the problem, because our audit showed that we
have a large number of customers affected by the CVE.

DESCRIPTION

* CVE-2014-5077: Remote denial-of-service in SCTP on simultaneous connections.

Linux kernel built with the support for Stream Control Transmission
Protocol is vulnerable to a NULL pointer dereference flaw. It could occur
when simultaneous new connections are initiated between the same pair of
hosts. A remote user/program could use this flaw to crash the system kernel
resulting in denial-of-service.

INSTALLING THE UPDATES

On systems that have "autoinstall = yes" in /etc/uptrack/uptrack.conf,
these updates will be installed automatically and you do not need to
take any action.

Alternatively, you can install these updates by running:

# /usr/sbin/uptrack-upgrade -y

SUPPORT

Ksplice support is available at ksplice-support_ww at oracle.com