CVEvulnerability

CVE-2006-2272

7.8 HIGH Published 2006-05-09 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2006-05-09
Last modified
2026-06-16
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
7.8 HIGH — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

Description

Linux SCTP (lksctp) before 2.6.17 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (kernel panic) via incoming IP fragmented (1) COOKIE_ECHO and (2) HEARTBEAT SCTP control chunks.

Affected configurations

• lksctp stream control transmission protocol (<= 2.6.16)

References