CVE-2011-2482 Information

Description

A certain Red Hat patch to the sctp_sock_migrate function in net/sctp/socket.c in the Linux kernel before 2.6.21 as used in Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 5 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and OOPS) via a crafted SCTP packet.

CVSS Vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Reference

http://ftp.osuosl.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ChangeLog-2.6.21 http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=ea2bc483ff5caada7c4aa0d5fbf87d3a6590273d http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2011-1212.html http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/08/30/1 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=714867 https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/ea2bc483ff5caada7c4aa0d5fbf87d3a6590273d

Attack Complexity

LOW

Privileges Required

NONE

User Interaction Required

NONE

Scope

NONE

Confidentiality Impact

UNCHANGED

Integrity Impact

NONE

Availability Impact

NONE

Base Score

HIGH

Base Severity

7.5