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SUSE Linux Security Vulnerability: CVE-2008-3526

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SUSE Linux Security Vulnerability: CVE-2008-3526

Severity
8
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C)
Published
08/27/2008
Created
07/25/2018
Added
02/17/2015
Modified
06/21/2018

Description

Integer overflow in the sctp_setsockopt_auth_key function in net/sctp/socket.c in the Stream Control Transmission Protocol (sctp) implementation in the Linux kernel 2.6.24-rc1 through 2.6.26.3 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (panic) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted sca_keylength field associated with the SCTP_AUTH_KEY option.

Solution(s)

  • 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-ps3
  • suse-upgrade-kernel-rt
  • suse-upgrade-kernel-rt_debug
  • suse-upgrade-kernel-source
  • suse-upgrade-kernel-syms
  • suse-upgrade-kernel-vanilla
  • suse-upgrade-kernel-xen

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