CVE-2008-2826
Publication date 2 July 2008
Last updated 24 July 2024
Ubuntu priority
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.
From the Ubuntu Security Team
Gabriel Campana discovered that SCTP routines did not correctly check for large addresses. A local user could exploit this to allocate all available memory, leading to a denial of service.
Status
| Package | Ubuntu Release | Status |
|---|---|---|
| linux | ||
| linux-source-2.6.15 | ||
| linux-source-2.6.20 | ||
| linux-source-2.6.22 | ||