Security Advisory

CVE-2017-5986

CVE vulnerability detail - eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2017-02-18 21:40:00
Last updated 2024-08-05 15:18:49
Assigner mitre
CVSS score not scored
State PUBLISHED

Description

Race condition in the sctp_wait_for_sndbuf function in net/sctp/socket.c in the Linux kernel before 4.9.11 allows local users to cause a denial of service (assertion failure and panic) via a multithreaded application that peels off an association in a certain buffer-full state.