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CVE-2006-1857

CRITICAL CVSS: 9.0 Published: 2006-05-22 Modified: 2026-06-16

Description

Buffer overflow in SCTP in Linux kernel before 2.6.16.17 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via a malformed HB-ACK chunk.

Affected Platforms

Linux Linux Kernel

Weakness Type

CWE-119

References