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CVE Reference: CVE-2008-4618 |
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Original Page at CVE MITRE: CVE-2008-4618 |
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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. |
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CVE Status: Candidate |
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References: UBUNTU http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-679-1 SUSE http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-10/msg00010.html SAID Secunia Advisory: SA32918 Secunia Advisory: SA32998 Secunia Advisory: SA33586 REDHAT http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2009-0009.html MLIST http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2008/10/06/1 DEBIAN http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1681 CONFIRM http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-2.6.27.y.git;a=commit;h=ba0166708ef4da7eeb61dd92bbba4d5a749d6561 http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ChangeLog-2.6.27 BID 31848 |
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