CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2008-4576

Improper Authentication

Published: Oct 15, 2008 | Modified: Sep 29, 2017
CVSS 3.x
N/A
Source:
NVD
CVSS 2.x
7.8 HIGH
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
Ubuntu

sctp in Linux kernel before 2.6.25.18 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (OOPS) via an INIT-ACK that states the peer does not support AUTH, which causes the sctp_process_init function to clean up active transports and triggers the OOPS when the T1-Init timer expires.

Weakness

When an actor claims to have a given identity, the product does not prove or insufficiently proves that the claim is correct.

Affected Software

Name Vendor Start Version End Version
Linux_kernel Linux * 2.6.25.17 (including)
Linux_kernel Linux 2.2.27 (including) 2.2.27 (including)
Linux_kernel Linux 2.4.36 (including) 2.4.36 (including)
Linux_kernel Linux 2.4.36.1 (including) 2.4.36.1 (including)
Linux_kernel Linux 2.4.36.2 (including) 2.4.36.2 (including)
Linux_kernel Linux 2.4.36.3 (including) 2.4.36.3 (including)
Linux_kernel Linux 2.4.36.4 (including) 2.4.36.4 (including)
Linux_kernel Linux 2.4.36.5 (including) 2.4.36.5 (including)
Linux_kernel Linux 2.4.36.6 (including) 2.4.36.6 (including)
Linux_kernel Linux 2.6 (including) 2.6 (including)
Linux_kernel Linux 2.6.18 (including) 2.6.18 (including)
Linux_kernel Linux 2.6.18-rc1 (including) 2.6.18-rc1 (including)
Linux_kernel Linux 2.6.18-rc2 (including) 2.6.18-rc2 (including)
Linux_kernel Linux 2.6.18-rc3 (including) 2.6.18-rc3 (including)
Linux_kernel Linux 2.6.18-rc4 (including) 2.6.18-rc4 (including)
Linux_kernel Linux 2.6.18-rc5 (including) 2.6.18-rc5 (including)
Linux_kernel Linux 2.6.18-rc6 (including) 2.6.18-rc6 (including)
Linux_kernel Linux 2.6.18-rc7 (including) 2.6.18-rc7 (including)
Linux_kernel Linux 2.6.19.4 (including) 2.6.19.4 (including)
Linux_kernel Linux 2.6.19.5 (including) 2.6.19.5 (including)
Linux_kernel Linux 2.6.19.6 (including) 2.6.19.6 (including)
Linux_kernel Linux 2.6.19.7 (including) 2.6.19.7 (including)
Linux_kernel Linux 2.6.20.16 (including) 2.6.20.16 (including)
Linux_kernel Linux 2.6.20.17 (including) 2.6.20.17 (including)
Linux_kernel Linux 2.6.20.18 (including) 2.6.20.18 (including)
Linux_kernel Linux 2.6.20.19 (including) 2.6.20.19 (including)
Linux_kernel Linux 2.6.20.20 (including) 2.6.20.20 (including)
Linux_kernel Linux 2.6.20.21 (including) 2.6.20.21 (including)
Linux_kernel Linux 2.6.21.5 (including) 2.6.21.5 (including)
Linux_kernel Linux 2.6.21.6 (including) 2.6.21.6 (including)
Linux_kernel Linux 2.6.21.7 (including) 2.6.21.7 (including)
Linux_kernel Linux 2.6.22 (including) 2.6.22 (including)
Linux_kernel Linux 2.6.22.1 (including) 2.6.22.1 (including)
Linux_kernel Linux 2.6.22.2 (including) 2.6.22.2 (including)
Linux_kernel Linux 2.6.22.8 (including) 2.6.22.8 (including)
Linux_kernel Linux 2.6.22.9 (including) 2.6.22.9 (including)
Linux_kernel Linux 2.6.22.10 (including) 2.6.22.10 (including)
Linux_kernel Linux 2.6.22.11 (including) 2.6.22.11 (including)
Linux_kernel Linux 2.6.22.12 (including) 2.6.22.12 (including)
Linux_kernel Linux 2.6.22.13 (including) 2.6.22.13 (including)
Linux_kernel Linux 2.6.22.14 (including) 2.6.22.14 (including)
Linux_kernel Linux 2.6.22.15 (including) 2.6.22.15 (including)
Linux_kernel Linux 2.6.22.17 (including) 2.6.22.17 (including)
Linux_kernel Linux 2.6.22.18 (including) 2.6.22.18 (including)
Linux_kernel Linux 2.6.22.19 (including) 2.6.22.19 (including)
Linux_kernel Linux 2.6.22.20 (including) 2.6.22.20 (including)
Linux_kernel Linux 2.6.22.21 (including) 2.6.22.21 (including)
Linux_kernel Linux 2.6.22.22 (including) 2.6.22.22 (including)
Linux_kernel Linux 2.6.22_rc1 (including) 2.6.22_rc1 (including)
Linux_kernel Linux 2.6.22_rc7 (including) 2.6.22_rc7 (including)
Linux_kernel Linux 2.6.23 (including) 2.6.23 (including)
Linux_kernel Linux 2.6.23.8 (including) 2.6.23.8 (including)
Linux_kernel Linux 2.6.23.9 (including) 2.6.23.9 (including)
Linux_kernel Linux 2.6.23.10 (including) 2.6.23.10 (including)
Linux_kernel Linux 2.6.23.11 (including) 2.6.23.11 (including)
Linux_kernel Linux 2.6.23.12 (including) 2.6.23.12 (including)
Linux_kernel Linux 2.6.23.13 (including) 2.6.23.13 (including)
Linux_kernel Linux 2.6.23.15 (including) 2.6.23.15 (including)
Linux_kernel Linux 2.6.23.16 (including) 2.6.23.16 (including)
Linux_kernel Linux 2.6.23.17 (including) 2.6.23.17 (including)
Linux_kernel Linux 2.6.23_rc1 (including) 2.6.23_rc1 (including)
Linux_kernel Linux 2.6.24 (including) 2.6.24 (including)
Linux_kernel Linux 2.6.24.1 (including) 2.6.24.1 (including)
Linux_kernel Linux 2.6.24.2 (including) 2.6.24.2 (including)
Linux_kernel Linux 2.6.24.3 (including) 2.6.24.3 (including)
Linux_kernel Linux 2.6.24.4 (including) 2.6.24.4 (including)
Linux_kernel Linux 2.6.24.5 (including) 2.6.24.5 (including)
Linux_kernel Linux 2.6.24.6 (including) 2.6.24.6 (including)
Linux_kernel Linux 2.6.24.7 (including) 2.6.24.7 (including)
Linux_kernel Linux 2.6.24_rc1 (including) 2.6.24_rc1 (including)
Linux_kernel Linux 2.6.24_rc4 (including) 2.6.24_rc4 (including)
Linux_kernel Linux 2.6.24_rc5 (including) 2.6.24_rc5 (including)
Linux_kernel Linux 2.6.25 (including) 2.6.25 (including)
Linux_kernel Linux 2.6.25.1 (including) 2.6.25.1 (including)
Linux_kernel Linux 2.6.25.2 (including) 2.6.25.2 (including)
Linux_kernel Linux 2.6.25.3 (including) 2.6.25.3 (including)
Linux_kernel Linux 2.6.25.4 (including) 2.6.25.4 (including)
Linux_kernel Linux 2.6.25.5 (including) 2.6.25.5 (including)
Linux_kernel Linux 2.6.25.6 (including) 2.6.25.6 (including)
Linux_kernel Linux 2.6.25.7 (including) 2.6.25.7 (including)
Linux_kernel Linux 2.6.25.8 (including) 2.6.25.8 (including)
Linux_kernel Linux 2.6.25.9 (including) 2.6.25.9 (including)
Linux_kernel Linux 2.6.25.10 (including) 2.6.25.10 (including)
Linux_kernel Linux 2.6.25.11 (including) 2.6.25.11 (including)
Linux_kernel Linux 2.6.25.12 (including) 2.6.25.12 (including)
Linux_kernel Linux 2.6.25.13 (including) 2.6.25.13 (including)
Linux_kernel Linux 2.6.25.14 (including) 2.6.25.14 (including)
Linux_kernel Linux 2.6.25.15 (including) 2.6.25.15 (including)
Linux_kernel Linux 2.6.25.16 (including) 2.6.25.16 (including)

Potential Mitigations

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