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MEDIUM

security flaw

Published Jun 30, 2006

Description

SCTP conntrack (ip_conntrack_proto_sctp.c) in netfilter for Linux kernel 2.6.17 before 2.6.17.3 and 2.6.16 before 2.6.16.23 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via a packet without any chunks, which causes a variable to contain an invalid value that is later used to dereference a pointer.

Affected products

Remediation

No remediation recorded yet.

Metrics

Weaknesses (1)

References (32)

Change history (0)

No recorded changes yet.

Sources
CVE.org / MITRE
Status PUBLISHED
Assigner redhat
Published Jun 30, 2006
Updated Aug 7, 2024
Reserved Jun 9, 2006
NVD
Status Modified
Modified Sep 23, 2026
Red Hat
Severity Important
Public date Jun 30, 2006