CVE-2010-4526

CVE Details

Release Date:

2011-01-11

Description

Race condition in the sctp_icmp_proto_unreachable function in net/sctp/input.c in Linux kernel 2.6.11-rc2 through 2.6.33 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (panic) via an ICMP unreachable message to a socket that is already locked by a user, which causes the socket to be freed and triggers list corruption, related to the sctp_wait_for_connect function.

See more information about CVE-2010-4526 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:	7.1	Base Metrics:	AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C
Access Vector:	Network	Attack Complexity:	Medium
Authentication:	None required	Confidentiality Impact:	None
Integrity Impact:	None	Availability Impact:	Complete

Errata information

Platform	Errata	Release Date
Oracle Linux version 5 (kernel)	ELSA-2011-0163	2011-02-04
Oracle Linux version 5 (ocfs2-2.6.18-238.1.1.0.1.el5)	ELSA-2011-0163	2011-02-04
Oracle Linux version 5 (oracleasm-2.6.18-238.1.1.0.1.el5)	ELSA-2011-0163	2011-02-04
Oracle Linux version 6 (kernel)	ELSA-2011-0421	2011-04-07

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