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Tracker / CVE-2015-8767

CVE-2015-8767

Medium 6.2

net/sctp/sm_sideeffect.c in the Linux kernel before 4.3 does not properly manage the relationship between a lock and a socket, which allows local users to cause a denial of service (deadlock) via a crafted sctp_accept call.

Affected products and versions

canonical ubuntu_linux
debian debian_linux
linux linux_kernel · … → 4.3

Analysis

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