CVE-2006-1857

Upstream information

CVE-2006-1857 at MITRE

Description

Buffer overflow in SCTP in Linux kernel before 2.6.16.17 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via a malformed HB-ACK chunk.

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SUSE information

Overall state of this security issue: Resolved

This issue is currently rated as having important severity.

CVSS v2 Scores

	National Vulnerability Database
Base Score	9
Vector	AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:C
Access Vector	Network
Access Complexity	Low
Authentication	None
Confidentiality Impact	Partial
Integrity Impact	Partial
Availability Impact	Complete

SUSE Bugzilla entry: 177571 [RESOLVED / FIXED]

SUSE Security Advisories:

• SUSE-SA:2006:042, published Wed, 26 Jul 2006 14:00:00 +0000
• SUSE-SA:2006:047, published Fri, 11 Aug 2006 17:00:00 +0000

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SUSE Timeline for this CVE

CVE page created: Fri Jun 28 02:23:04 2013
CVE page last modified: Mon Sep 23 11:11:14 2024