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CVE-2008-2826

• Severity: medium (CVSS 4.9 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2008-07-02 · updated 2026-06-16
• Weakness: CWE-190

Description

Integer overflow in the sctp_getsockopt_local_addrs_old function in net/sctp/socket.c in the Stream Control Transmission Protocol (sctp) functionality in the Linux kernel before 2.6.25.9 allows local users to cause a denial of service (resource consumption and system outage) via vectors involving a large addr_num field in an sctp_getaddrs_old data structure.

Affected products

• Canonical Ubuntu Linux: 6.06, 7.04, 7.10, 8.04
• Debian Linux: 4.0
• Linux kernel: before 2.6.25.9 — fixed in 2.6.25.9
• Opensuse: 10.3, 11.0

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: Linux kernel 2.6.25.9. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=735ce972fbc8a65fb17788debd7bbe7b4383cc62
• http://kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ChangeLog-2.6.25.9
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-07/msg00009.html
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-10/msg00008.html
• http://lwn.net/Articles/287350/
• http://secunia.com/advisories/30901
• http://secunia.com/advisories/31107
• http://secunia.com/advisories/31202
• http://secunia.com/advisories/31551
• http://secunia.com/advisories/31628
• http://secunia.com/advisories/32370
• http://wiki.rpath.com/wiki/Advisories:rPSA-2008-0207

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