CVE-2015-5283

Advisory lineage Upstream: 0 Downstream: 9
Modified
Published: 19 Oct 2015, 10:00
Last modified:06 Aug 2024, 06:41

Vulnerability Summary

Overall Risk (default)
medium
29/100
CVSS Score
4.7 MEDIUM
v2.0 (nvd)
EPSS Score
0.1% LOW
0% probability 0.00%
KEV
Not listed
Ransomware
No reports
Public exploits
3 found
Dark Web
Not detected

Timeline

19 Oct 2015, 10:00
Published
Vulnerability first disclosed
06 Aug 2024, 06:41
Last Modified
Vulnerability information updated

Description

The sctp_init function in net/sctp/protocol.c in the Linux kernel before 4.2.3 has an incorrect sequence of protocol-initialization steps, which allows local users to cause a denial of service (panic or memory corruption) by creating SCTP sockets before all of the steps have finished.

CVSS Metrics

  • v2.0•MEDIUM•Score: 4.7AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

EPSS Trends

Current EPSS score: 0.10%• Percentile: 28%

Techniques & Countermeasures

  • CWE-119•Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer

    The product performs operations on a memory buffer, but it reads from or writes to a memory location outside the buffer's intended boundary. This may result in read or write operations on unexpected memory locations that could be linked to other variables, data structures, or internal program data.

Affected Systems

  • linux•linux_kernel

    ≤ 4.2.2

References (16)