CVE-2011-2482

HIGH

Linux Kernel < 2.6.21 - Denial of Service via SCTP Packet Handling

Title source: llm

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.

References (6)

Core 6

Core References

Patch x_refsource_confirm

http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=ea2bc483ff5caada7c4aa0d5fbf87d3a6590273d

Exploit, Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory x_refsource_confirm

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=714867

Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_redhat

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2011-1212.html

Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory mailing-list x_refsource_mlist

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/08/30/1

Broken Link x_refsource_confirm

http://ftp.osuosl.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ChangeLog-2.6.21

Patch, Third Party Advisory x_refsource_confirm

https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/ea2bc483ff5caada7c4aa0d5fbf87d3a6590273d

Scores

CVSS v3 7.5

EPSS 0.0377

EPSS Percentile 88.6%

Attack Vector NETWORK

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

Details

CWE

CWE-476

Status published

Products (1)

linux/linux_kernel < 2.6.21

Published Jun 08, 2013

Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026