Name: CVE-2013-5209: Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor
Creator: Rapid7
Published: 2013-08-29T00:00:00.000Z
License: https://www.rapid7.com/legal/website-terms-of-use/
Keywords: CVE, CVE-2013-5209, CWE-200, CVSS 7.8, EPSS 0.00626

The sctp_send_initiate_ack function in sys/netinet/sctp_output.c in the SCTP implementation in the kernel in FreeBSD 8.3 through 9.2-PRERELEASE does not properly initialize the state-cookie data structure, which allows remote attackers to obtain sensitive information from kernel stack memory by reading packet data in INIT-ACK chunks.

Covered by Rapid7

Product	Vendor Advisory	Solution File	Added	Published
Freebsd	—	Upgrade FreeBSD	Dec 10, 2025	Aug 9, 2016

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