CVE - CVE-2008-4618

CVE-ID
CVE-2008-4618	Learn more at National Vulnerability Database (NVD) • CVSS Severity Rating • Fix Information • Vulnerable Software Versions • SCAP Mappings • CPE Information
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.
References
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BID:31848 URL:http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/31848 CONFIRM:http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-2.6.27.y.git;a=commit;h=ba0166708ef4da7eeb61dd92bbba4d5a749d6561 CONFIRM:http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ChangeLog-2.6.27 DEBIAN:DSA-1681 URL:http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1681 MLIST:[oss-security] 20081006 CVE request: kernel: sctp: Fix kernel panic while process protocol violation parameter URL:http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2008/10/06/1 REDHAT:RHSA-2009:0009 URL:http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2009-0009.html SECUNIA:32918 URL:http://secunia.com/advisories/32918 SECUNIA:32998 URL:http://secunia.com/advisories/32998 SECUNIA:33586 URL:http://secunia.com/advisories/33586 SUSE:SUSE-SA:2008:053 URL:http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-10/msg00010.html UBUNTU:USN-679-1 URL:http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-679-1
Assigning CNA
MITRE Corporation
Date Record Created
20081020	Disclaimer: The record creation date may reflect when the CVE ID was allocated or reserved, and does not necessarily indicate when this vulnerability was discovered, shared with the affected vendor, publicly disclosed, or updated in CVE.
Phase (Legacy)
Assigned (20081020)
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Proposed (Legacy)
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