CVE-2009-0065

Severity: critical (CVSS 10.0 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 16.7% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2009-01-07 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-119

Description

Buffer overflow in net/sctp/sm_statefuns.c in the Stream Control Transmission Protocol (sctp) implementation in the Linux kernel before 2.6.28-git8 allows remote attackers to have an unknown impact via an FWD-TSN (aka FORWARD-TSN) chunk with a large stream ID.

Affected products

Linux kernel: through 2.6.27; 2.2.27, 2.4.36, 2.4.36.1, 2.4.36.2, 2.4.36.3, 2.4.36.4 (+89)

References

http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=9fcb95a105758b81ef0131cd18e2db5149f13e95
http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bizsupport/TechSupport/Document.jsp?objectID=c01832118
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2009-02/msg00003.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2009-06/msg00000.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2009-06/msg00001.html
http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/15024/
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2009-0264.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/33674
http://secunia.com/advisories/33854
http://secunia.com/advisories/33858
http://secunia.com/advisories/34252
http://secunia.com/advisories/34394

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