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CVE-2008-4576

Published: 15 October 2008

sctp in Linux kernel before 2.6.25.18 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (OOPS) via an INIT-ACK that states the peer does not support AUTH, which causes the sctp_process_init function to clean up active transports and triggers the OOPS when the T1-Init timer expires.

From the Ubuntu Security Team

It was discovered that the SCTP stack did not correctly handle INIT-ACK. 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

Low

Status

Package Release Status
linux-source-2.6.15
Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian
upstream
Released (2.6.27~rc7)
dapper
Released (2.6.15-53.74)
gutsy Does not exist

hardy Does not exist

intrepid Does not exist

linux-source-2.6.22
Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian
upstream
Released (2.6.27~rc7)
dapper Does not exist

gutsy
Released (2.6.22-16.60)
hardy Does not exist

intrepid Does not exist

linux
Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian
upstream
Released (2.6.27~rc7)
dapper Does not exist

gutsy Does not exist

hardy
Released (2.6.24-22.45)
intrepid Not vulnerable

Patches:
upstream: http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commitdiff;h=add52379dde2e5300e2d574b172e62c6cf43b3d3