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Tracker / CVE-2014-4667

CVE-2014-4667

Medium 5.0

The sctp_association_free function in net/sctp/associola.c in the Linux kernel before 3.15.2 does not properly manage a certain backlog value, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (socket outage) via a crafted SCTP packet.

Affected products and versions

canonical ubuntu_linux
debian debian_linux
linux linux_kernel · … → 3.15.2
suse linux_enterprise_desktop
suse linux_enterprise_real_time_extension
suse linux_enterprise_server

Analysis

This page is not indexable yet.Until it carries original analysis — what it actually exposes, how to check in two minutes whether a system was touched, what to do if it was — the page stays noindex. The database decides that, not the template.

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