CVE-2011-2482

CVE Details

Release Date:

2011-08-30

Description

A certain Red Hat patch to the sctp_sock_migrate function in net/sctp/socket.c in the Linux kernel before 2.6.21, as used in Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 5, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and OOPS) via a crafted SCTP packet.

See more information about CVE-2011-2482 from MITRE CVE dictionary and NIST NVD

CVSS v2.0 metrics

NOTE: The following CVSS v2.0 metrics and score provided are preliminary and subject to review.

Base Score:	7.8	Base Metrics:	AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C
Access Vector:	Network	Attack Complexity:	Low
Authentication:	None required	Confidentiality Impact:	None
Integrity Impact:	None	Availability Impact:	Complete

Errata information

Platform	Errata	Release Date
Oracle Linux version 5 (kernel)	ELSA-2011-1212	2011-09-07
Oracle Linux version 5 (ocfs2-2.6.18-274.3.1.0.1.el5)	ELSA-2011-1212	2011-09-07
Oracle Linux version 5 (oracleasm-2.6.18-274.3.1.0.1.el5)	ELSA-2011-1212	2011-09-07

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