CVE-2008-4576 Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures

Upstream information

CVE-2008-4576 at MITRE

Description

sctp in Linux kernel before 2.6.25.18 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (OOPS) via an INIT-ACK that states the peer does not support AUTH, which causes the sctp_process_init function to clean up active transports and triggers the OOPS when the T1-Init timer expires.

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	7.8
Vector	AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C
Access Vector	Network
Access Complexity	Low
Authentication	None
Confidentiality Impact	None
Integrity Impact	None
Availability Impact	Complete

SUSE Bugzilla entry: 433757 [RESOLVED / FIXED]

SUSE Security Advisories:

SUSE-SA:2008:052, published Tue, 21 Oct 2008 11:00:00 +0000
SUSE-SA:2008:053, published Mon, 27 Oct 2008 18:00:00 +0000
SUSE-SR:2008:025, published Fri, 14 Nov 2008 15:00:00 +0000

SUSE Timeline for this CVE

CVE page created: Tue Jul 9 18:30:28 2013
CVE page last modified: Fri Dec 8 16:28:28 2023