Red Hat Security Advisory 2016-1847-01 - The kernel packages contain the Linux kernel, the core of any Linux operating system. Security Fix: A security flaw was found in the Linux kernel in the mark_source_chains() function in "net/ipv4/netfilter/ip_tables.c". It is possible for a user-supplied "ipt_entry" structure to have a large "next_offset" field. This field is not bounds checked prior to writing to a counter value at the supplied offset. Continue reading...
