CVE-2014-4667

Publication date

2014-07-03 01:00:00

Family

mitre

State

PUBLISHED

Description

The sctp_association_free function in net/sctp/associola.c in the Linux kernel before 3.15.2 does not properly manage a certain backlog value, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (socket outage) via a crafted SCTP packet.