4.7 Medium
CVSS2
Access Vector
LOCAL
Access Complexity
MEDIUM
Authentication
NONE
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
COMPLETE
AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C
0.0004 Low
EPSS
Percentile
9.3%
The sctp_init function in net/sctp/protocol.c in the Linux kernel before 4.2.3 has an incorrect sequence of protocol-initialization steps, which allows local users to cause a denial of service (panic or memory corruption) by creating SCTP sockets before all of the steps have finished.
OS | Version | Architecture | Package | Version | Filename |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Debian | 12 | all | linux | < 4.2.1-2 | linux_4.2.1-2_all.deb |
Debian | 11 | all | linux | < 4.2.1-2 | linux_4.2.1-2_all.deb |
Debian | 10 | all | linux | < 4.2.1-2 | linux_4.2.1-2_all.deb |
Debian | 999 | all | linux | < 4.2.1-2 | linux_4.2.1-2_all.deb |
Debian | 13 | all | linux | < 4.2.1-2 | linux_4.2.1-2_all.deb |