CVE-2006-2934

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 5.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2006-06-30 · updated 2026-09-23
Weakness: CWE-399

Description

SCTP conntrack (ip_conntrack_proto_sctp.c) in netfilter for Linux kernel 2.6.17 before 2.6.17.3 and 2.6.16 before 2.6.16.23 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via a packet without any chunks, which causes a variable to contain an invalid value that is later used to dereference a pointer.

Affected products

Linux kernel: 2.6.16, 2.6.16.1, 2.6.16.2, 2.6.16.10, 2.6.16.11, 2.6.16.12 (+13)

References

http://secunia.com/advisories/20917
http://secunia.com/advisories/20986
http://secunia.com/advisories/21179
http://secunia.com/advisories/21298
http://secunia.com/advisories/21465
http://secunia.com/advisories/21498
http://secunia.com/advisories/21614
http://secunia.com/advisories/21934
http://secunia.com/advisories/22417
http://support.avaya.com/elmodocs2/security/ASA-2006-200.htm
http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/717844
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-2.6.17.y.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=9c48e1ea8cf8800cc5e2d39ccbb8b5ff9704f8e9

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