Security Advisory

CVE-2006-2275

CVE vulnerability detail — eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2006-05-09 20:00:00
Last updated 2024-08-07 17:43:29
Assigner mitre
State PUBLISHED

Description

Linux SCTP (lksctp) before 2.6.17 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (deadlock) via a large number of small messages to a receiver application that cannot process the messages quickly enough, which leads to "spillover of the receive buffer."