CVE-2008-4618 Information

Description

The Stream Control Transmission Protocol (sctp) implementation in the Linux kernel before 2.6.27 does not properly handle a protocol violation in which a parameter has an invalid length which allows attackers to cause a denial of service (panic) via unspecified vectors related to sctp_sf_violation_paramlen sctp_sf_abort_violation sctp_make_abort_violation and incorrect data types in function calls.

Reference

http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-2.6.27.y.git;a=commit;h=ba0166708ef4da7eeb61dd92bbba4d5a749d6561 http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-10/msg00010.html http://secunia.com/advisories/32918 http://secunia.com/advisories/32998 http://secunia.com/advisories/33586 http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1681 http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ChangeLog-2.6.27 http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2008/10/06/1 http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2009-0009.html http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/31848 http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-679-1