CVE-2008-2826

CVE-2008-2826 · MEDIUM Severity

AV:L/AC:L/AU:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

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.

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