CVE-2006-1527

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 3.9% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2006-05-03 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

The SCTP-netfilter code in Linux kernel before 2.6.16.13 allows remote attackers to trigger a denial of service (infinite loop) via unknown vectors that cause an invalid SCTP chunk size to be processed by the for_each_sctp_chunk function.

Affected products

Linux kernel: 2.6.16.12

References

http://secunia.com/advisories/19926
http://secunia.com/advisories/20157
http://secunia.com/advisories/20237
http://secunia.com/advisories/20398
http://secunia.com/advisories/20716
http://secunia.com/advisories/21745
http://support.avaya.com/elmodocs2/security/ASA-2006-161.htm
http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ChangeLog-2.6.16.13
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2006:086
http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2006-05-31.html
http://www.osvdb.org/25229
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2006-0493.html

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