CVE-2011-4348

Severity: high (CVSS 7.1 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 2.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2013-06-08 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-362

Description

Race condition in the sctp_rcv function in net/sctp/input.c in the Linux kernel before 2.6.29 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (system hang) via SCTP packets. NOTE: in some environments, this issue exists because of an incomplete fix for CVE-2011-2482.

Affected products

Linux kernel: through 2.6.28.10; 2.6.28, 2.6.28.1, 2.6.28.2, 2.6.28.3, 2.6.28.4, 2.6.28.5 (+4)

References

http://ftp.osuosl.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ChangeLog-2.6.29
http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=ae53b5bd77719fed58086c5be60ce4f22bffe1c6
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/03/05/2
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=757143
https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/ae53b5bd77719fed58086c5be60ce4f22bffe1c6
http://ftp.osuosl.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ChangeLog-2.6.29
http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=ae53b5bd77719fed58086c5be60ce4f22bffe1c6
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/03/05/2
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=757143
https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/ae53b5bd77719fed58086c5be60ce4f22bffe1c6

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