[ MDVSA-2015:027 ] kernel

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 Mandriva Linux Security Advisory                         MDVSA-2015:027
 http://www.mandriva.com/en/support/security/
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 Package : kernel
 Date    : January 16, 2015
 Affected: Business Server 1.0
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 Problem Description:

 Multiple vulnerabilities has been found and corrected in the Linux
 kernel:
 
 The SCTP implementation in the Linux kernel before 3.17.4 allows
 remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) by
 triggering a large number of chunks in an association's output queue,
 as demonstrated by ASCONF probes, related to net/sctp/inqueue.c and
 net/sctp/sm_statefuns.c (CVE-2014-3688=.
 
 Buffer overflow in net/ceph/auth_x.c in Ceph, as used in the Linux
 kernel before 3.16.3, allows remote attackers to cause a deni

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