Description: A vulnerability has been reported in the Linux Kernel, which can be exploited by malicious people to cause a DoS (Denial of Service).
The vulnerability is caused due to an error when handling SCTP packets without a chunk. This can be exploited to crash the kernel by sending a specially crafted SCTP packet to a vulnerable system.
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