Security Advisory

CVE-2014-7841

CVE vulnerability detail — eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2014-11-30 01:00:00
Last updated 2024-08-06 13:03:26
Assigner redhat
State PUBLISHED

Description

The sctp_process_param function in net/sctp/sm_make_chunk.c in the SCTP implementation in the Linux kernel before 3.17.4, when ASCONF is used, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and system crash) via a malformed INIT chunk.