SUSE Linux Security Vulnerability: CVE-2008-2826
5
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C)
07/02/2008
07/25/2018
02/17/2015
06/21/2018
Description
Integer overflow in the sctp_getsockopt_local_addrs_old function in net/sctp/socket.c in the Stream Control Transmission Protocol (sctp) functionality in the Linux kernel before 2.6.25.9 allows local users to cause a denial of service (resource consumption and system outage) via vectors involving a large addr_num field in an sctp_getaddrs_old data structure.
Solution(s)
- suse-upgrade-kernel-bigsmp
- suse-upgrade-kernel-debug
- suse-upgrade-kernel-default
- suse-upgrade-kernel-docs
- suse-upgrade-kernel-kdump
- suse-upgrade-kernel-pae
- suse-upgrade-kernel-ppc64
- suse-upgrade-kernel-rt
- suse-upgrade-kernel-rt_bigsmp
- suse-upgrade-kernel-rt_debug
- suse-upgrade-kernel-rt_timing
- suse-upgrade-kernel-source
- suse-upgrade-kernel-syms
- suse-upgrade-kernel-vanilla
- suse-upgrade-kernel-xen
- suse-upgrade-kernel-xenpae
- suse-upgrade-slert-release
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