CVE-2008-4618

Published Oct 21, 2008

Last updated a year ago

Overview

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.
Source
cve@mitre.org
NVD status
Modified

Risk scores

CVSS 2.0

Type
Primary
Base score
7.8
Impact score
6.9
Exploitability score
10
Vector string
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

Weaknesses

nvd@nist.gov
CWE-20

Social media

Hype score
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Vendor comments

  • Red HatThe versions of Linux kernel as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 2.1, 3, 4, and 5 were not affected by this issue. This issue only affected the version of Linux kernel as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise MRG and was addressed via: https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2009-0009.html

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