CVE-2008-4618
Published: 21 October 2008
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.
From the Ubuntu Security Team
It was discovered that the SCTP stack did not correctly handle bad packet lengths. A remote user could exploit this by sending specially crafted SCTP traffic which would trigger a crash in the system, leading to a denial of service. This issue did not affect Ubuntu 8.10.
Priority
Status
| Package | Release | Status |
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linux Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian |
dapper |
Does not exist
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| gutsy |
Does not exist
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| hardy |
Released
(2.6.24-22.45)
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| intrepid |
Not vulnerable
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| upstream |
Released
(2.6.27~rc9)
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Patches: upstream: http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commitdiff;h=ba0166708ef4da7eeb61dd92bbba4d5a749d6561 |
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linux-source-2.6.15 Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian |
dapper |
Released
(2.6.15-53.74)
|
| gutsy |
Does not exist
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| hardy |
Does not exist
|
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| intrepid |
Does not exist
|
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| upstream |
Released
(2.6.27~rc9)
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linux-source-2.6.22 Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian |
dapper |
Does not exist
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| gutsy |
Released
(2.6.22-16.60)
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| hardy |
Does not exist
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| intrepid |
Does not exist
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| upstream |
Released
(2.6.27~rc9)
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