vulnerability

Arch Linux: Denial of service (CVE-2017-5986)

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C)
Published
Feb 18, 2017
Added
Jul 11, 2025
Modified
Nov 27, 2025

Description

It was reported that with Linux kernel, earlier than version v4.10-rc8, an application may trigger a BUG_ON in sctp_wait_for_sndbuf if the socket tx buffer is full, a thread is waiting on it to queue more data, and meanwhile another thread peels off the association being used by the first thread. This issue may then lead to a segmentation fault resulting in denial of service.

Solution

arch-linux-upgrade-latest

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