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National Vulnerability Database

National Vulnerability Database

NVD

National Vulnerability Database
  1. Vulnerabilities

CVE-2008-3792 Detail

Current Description

net/sctp/socket.c in the Stream Control Transmission Protocol (sctp) implementation in the Linux kernel before 2.6.26.4 does not verify that the SCTP-AUTH extension is enabled before proceeding with SCTP-AUTH API functions, which allows attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and panic) via vectors that result in calls to (1) sctp_setsockopt_auth_chunk, (2) sctp_setsockopt_hmac_ident, (3) sctp_setsockopt_auth_key, (4) sctp_setsockopt_active_key, (5) sctp_setsockopt_del_key, (6) sctp_getsockopt_maxburst, (7) sctp_getsockopt_active_key, (8) sctp_getsockopt_peer_auth_chunks, or (9) sctp_getsockopt_local_auth_chunks.


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Vendor Statements (disclaimer)

Official Statement from Red Hat (01/15/2009)

This issue did not affect the versions of Linux kernel as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 2.1, 3, 4, and 5. It was addressed in Red Hat Enterprise MRG for RHEL-5 via: https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2008-0857.html

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URL Source(s) Tag(s)
http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=5e739d1752aca4e8f3e794d431503bfca3162df4 CVE, MITRE
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-10/msg00010.html CVE, MITRE
http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/8/23/49 CVE, MITRE
http://marc.info/?l=linux-netdev&m=121928747903176&w=2 CVE, MITRE
http://secunia.com/advisories/31881 CVE, MITRE Vendor Advisory 
http://secunia.com/advisories/32190 CVE, MITRE Vendor Advisory 
http://secunia.com/advisories/32393 CVE, MITRE Vendor Advisory 
http://securityreason.com/securityalert/4210 CVE, MITRE Exploit 
http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1636 CVE, MITRE Patch 
http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ChangeLog-2.6.26.4 CVE, MITRE Vendor Advisory 
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2008/08/25/1 CVE, MITRE
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2008/08/26/6 CVE, MITRE
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2008/08/26/8 CVE, MITRE
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2008/09/26/6 CVE, MITRE
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2008-0857.html CVE, MITRE
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/496256/100/0/threaded CVE, MITRE
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/31121 CVE, MITRE Exploit  Patch 
http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1020854 CVE, MITRE
http://www.trapkit.de/advisories/TKADV2008-007.txt CVE, MITRE
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-659-1 CVE, MITRE
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/45189 CVE, MITRE

Weakness Enumeration

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Change History

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Quick Info

CVE Dictionary Entry:
CVE-2008-3792
NVD Published Date:
09/03/2008
NVD Last Modified:
04/08/2025
Source:
MITRE