Tracker / CVE-2008-2826
CVE-2008-2826
Medium 4.9
Integer overflow in the sctp_getsockopt_local_addrs_old function in net/sctp/socket.c in the Stream Control Transmission Protocol (sctp) functionality in the Linux kernel before 2.6.25.9 allows local users to cause a denial of service (resource consumption and system outage) via vectors involving a large addr_num field in an sctp_getaddrs_old data structure.
Affected products and versions
| canonical | ubuntu_linux |
|---|---|
| debian | debian_linux |
| linux | linux_kernel · … → 2.6.25.9 |
| opensuse | opensuse |
Analysis
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