CVE-2015-5283

The sctpinit 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...

CVE-2015-5283: Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer

The sctpinit 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...