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HIGH

security flaw

Published May 9, 2006

Description

Linux SCTP (lksctp) before 2.6.17 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (deadlock) via a large number of small messages to a receiver application that cannot process the messages quickly enough, which leads to "spillover of the receive buffer."

Affected products

Remediation

No remediation recorded yet.

Weaknesses (1)

References (15)

Change history (0)

No recorded changes yet.

Sources
CVE.org / MITRE
Status PUBLISHED
Assigner mitre
Published May 9, 2006
Updated Aug 7, 2024
Reserved May 9, 2006
NVD
Status Modified
Modified Jun 16, 2026
Red Hat
Severity Moderate
Public date May 9, 2006