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CVE-2008-3792

Date: September 3, 2008

net/sctp/socket.c in the Stream Control Transmission Protocol (sctp) implementation in the Linux kernel before 2.6.26.4 does not verify that the SCTP-AUTH extension is enabled before proceeding with SCTP-AUTH API functions, which allows attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and panic) via vectors that result in calls to (1) sctp_setsockopt_auth_chunk, (2) sctp_setsockopt_hmac_ident, (3) sctp_setsockopt_auth_key, (4) sctp_setsockopt_active_key, (5) sctp_setsockopt_del_key, (6) sctp_getsockopt_maxburst, (7) sctp_getsockopt_active_key, (8) sctp_getsockopt_peer_auth_chunks, or (9) sctp_getsockopt_local_auth_chunks.

Severity Score

5.9

Related Resources (24)

Url: http://secunia.com/advisories/31881

Url: http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/8/23/49

Url: https://people.canonical.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/CVE-2008-3792

Url: http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2008/08/26/8

Url: http://secunia.com/advisories/32393

Url: http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2008/08/26/6

Url: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/45189

Url: http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/496256/100/0/threaded

Url: http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2008-0857.html

Url: http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ChangeLog-2.6.26.4

Url: http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/31121

Url: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2008-3792

Url: http://secunia.com/advisories/32190

Url: http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=5e739d1752aca4e8f3e794d431503bfca3162df4

Url: http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2008/08/25/1

Url: http://securityreason.com/securityalert/4210

Url: http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2008/09/26/6

Url: http://www.trapkit.de/advisories/TKADV2008-007.txt

Url: http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1020854

Url: http://marc.info/?l=linux-netdev&m=121928747903176&w=2

Url: http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1636

Url: http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-659-1

Url: http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-10/msg00010.html

Url: https://www.mend.io/vulnerability-database/CVE-2008-3792

Severity Score

5.9

CVSS v3.1

Base Score:	5.9
Attack Vector (AV):	NETWORK
Attack Complexity (AC):	HIGH
Privileges Required (PR):	NONE
User Interaction (UI):	NONE
Scope (S):	UNCHANGED
Confidentiality (C):	NONE
Integrity (I):	NONE
Availability (A):	HIGH

CVSS v2

Base Score:	7.1
Access Vector (AV):	NETWORK
Access Complexity (AC):	MEDIUM
Authentication (AU):	NONE
Confidentiality (C):	NONE
Integrity (I):	NONE
Availability (A):	COMPLETE
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CVE-2008-3792

Date: September 3, 2008

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