CVE-2008-4576

Severity: high (CVSS 7.8 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 3.7% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2008-10-15 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-287

Description

sctp in Linux kernel before 2.6.25.18 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (OOPS) via an INIT-ACK that states the peer does not support AUTH, which causes the sctp_process_init function to clean up active transports and triggers the OOPS when the T1-Init timer expires.

Affected products

Linux kernel: through 2.6.25.17; 2.2.27, 2.4.36, 2.4.36.1, 2.4.36.2, 2.4.36.3, 2.4.36.4 (+82)

References

http://kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ChangeLog-2.6.25.18
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-10/msg00008.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-10/msg00010.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-11/msg00001.html
http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.security.oss.general/1039
http://secunia.com/advisories/32370
http://secunia.com/advisories/32386
http://secunia.com/advisories/32759
http://secunia.com/advisories/32918
http://secunia.com/advisories/32998
http://secunia.com/advisories/33180
http://secunia.com/advisories/33182

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