CVE-2008-4618
- State
- Published
- Severity
- Not scored
- Published
- Oct 20, 2008
- Updated
- Aug 7, 2024
- Reserved
- Oct 20, 2008
Description
The Stream Control Transmission Protocol (sctp) implementation in the Linux kernel before 2.6.27 does not properly handle a protocol violation in which a parameter has an invalid length, which allows attackers to cause a denial of service (panic) via unspecified vectors, related to sctp_sf_violation_paramlen, sctp_sf_abort_violation, sctp_make_abort_violation, and incorrect data types in function calls.
Scores
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Weaknesses
The record names no weakness.
Affected Products
| Product | Versions |
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n/an/a |
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References
- 32998third-party-advisory
- http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-2.6.27.y.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=ba0166708ef4da7eeb61dd92bbba4d5a749d6561
- RHSA-2009:0009vendor-advisory
- SUSE-SA:2008:053vendor-advisory
- 33586third-party-advisory
- [oss-security] 20081006 CVE request: kernel: sctp: Fix kernel panic while process protocol violation parametermailing-list
- 32918third-party-advisory
- USN-679-1vendor-advisory
- http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ChangeLog-2.6.27
- 31848vdb-entry
- DSA-1681vendor-advisory
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