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CVE-2017-5986

Published: Feb 18, 2017

Modified: Aug 5, 2024

PUBLISHED

Description

Race condition in the sctp_wait_for_sndbuf function in net/sctp/socket.c in the Linux kernel before 4.9.11 allows local users to cause a denial of service (assertion failure and panic) via a multithreaded application that peels off an association in a certain buffer-full state.

Vendor	Product	Versions
n/a	n/a	affected `n/a`

References

vendor-advisory

x_refsource_REDHAT

https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/2dcab598484185dea7ec22219c76dcdd59e3cb90

x_refsource_CONFIRM

[oss-security] 20170214 Re: Linux kernel: Reachable BUG_ON from userspace in sctp_wait_for_sndbuf()

mailing-list

x_refsource_MLIST

http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=2dcab598484185dea7ec22219c76dcdd59e3cb90

x_refsource_CONFIRM

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1420276

x_refsource_CONFIRM

vdb-entry

x_refsource_BID

vendor-advisory

x_refsource_DEBIAN

http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v4.x/ChangeLog-4.9.11

x_refsource_CONFIRM

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