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CVE-2008-4618

HIGH CVSS: 7.8 Published: 2008-10-21 Modified: 2026-06-16

Description

The Stream Control Transmission Protocol (sctp) implementation in the Linux kernel before 2.6.27 does not properly handle a protocol violation in which a parameter has an invalid length, which allows attackers to cause a denial of service (panic) via unspecified vectors, related to sctp_sf_violation_paramlen, sctp_sf_abort_violation, sctp_make_abort_violation, and incorrect data types in function calls.

Affected Platforms

Linux Linux Kernel

Weakness Type

CWE-20, NVD-CWE-noinfo

References