vulnerability

Debian: CVE-2017-5986: linux -- security update

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C)
Published
Feb 18, 2017
Added
Mar 9, 2017
Modified
Mar 30, 2026

Description

Race condition in the sctp_wait_for_sndbuf function in net/sctp/socket.c in the Linux kernel before 4.9.11 allows local users to cause a denial of service (assertion failure and panic) via a multithreaded application that peels off an association in a certain buffer-full state.

Solution

debian-upgrade-linux
Title
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