Security Advisory

CVE-2015-5283

CVE vulnerability detail - eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2015-10-19 10:00:00

Last updated 2024-08-06 06:41:09

Assigner redhat

CVSS score not scored

State PUBLISHED

Description

The sctp_init function in net/sctp/protocol.c in the Linux kernel before 4.2.3 has an incorrect sequence of protocol-initialization steps, which allows local users to cause a denial of service (panic or memory corruption) by creating SCTP sockets before all of the steps have finished.

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