CVE-2010-1173
50Vexday Risk Score
Prioritize patching. It exploitation observed by VulnCheck and has a public proof of concept.
ssvc Actepss 21%
from disclosure to weapon94 days
Published on NVDMay 7
1st PoC+94d
VulnCheck+5757d
exploitation probability
21%top 3% of all CVEs
observed exploitation
yesVulnCheck
1 public exploit(s)
The sctp_process_unk_param function in net/sctp/sm_make_chunk.c in the Linux kernel 2.6.33.3 and earlier, when SCTP is enabled, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (system crash) via an SCTPChunkInit packet containing multiple invalid parameters that require a large amount of error data.
Affected products
n/a · n/apublic PoCs found — 1✓ VexDay Proof
exploitdb✓ VexDay Proofwww.exploit-db.com/exploits/14594⚠ Public resources, to assess the exposure of systems you control or are authorized to test. Test only with authorization.
References
http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.network/159531http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=5fa782c2f5ef6c2e4f04d3e228412c9b4a4c8809http://kbase.redhat.com/faq/docs/DOC-31052http://marc.info/?l=oss-security&m=127251068407878&w=2https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=584645http://secunia.com/advisories/39830http://secunia.com/advisories/40218http://secunia.com/advisories/43315https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A11416http://www.debian.org/security/2010/dsa-2053http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2010:198http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2010/04/29/1