A pair of new kernel vulnerabilities are threatening the security of systems running current versions of several Linux distributions. One of the flaws gives a remote attacker the ability to crash vulnerable systems and the other leads to root privileges for a local attacker. The most serious of the new vulnerabilities is a remote denial-of-service bug in the Linux kernel related to the way that the system handles large packets.Ubuntu has released a new package, fixing these flaws, and Red Hat also has released updates to its affected Fedora versions.
Source: https://threatpost.com/two-new-flaws-haunt-linux-kernel-121009/73246/