CVE-2008-4618 Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures

Upstream information

CVE-2008-4618 at MITRE

Description

The Stream Control Transmission Protocol (sctp) implementation in the Linux kernel before 2.6.27 does not properly handle a protocol violation in which a parameter has an invalid length, which allows attackers to cause a denial of service (panic) via unspecified vectors, related to sctp_sf_violation_paramlen, sctp_sf_abort_violation, sctp_make_abort_violation, and incorrect data types in function calls.

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: 432490 [RESOLVED / FIXED]

SUSE Security Advisories:

SUSE-SA:2008:053, published Mon, 27 Oct 2008 18:00:00 +0000

SUSE Timeline for this CVE

CVE page created: Tue Jul 9 18:30:40 2013
CVE page last modified: Fri Dec 8 16:28:30 2023