CVE-2011-2482

Public Exploit

Description

A certain Red Hat patch to the sctp_sock_migrate function in net/sctp/socket.c in the Linux kernel before 2.6.21, as used in Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 5, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and OOPS) via a crafted SCTP packet.

Category

7.5
CVSS
Severity: High
CVSS 3.1 •
CVSS 2.0 •
EPSS 1.17% Top 25%
Vendor Advisory redhat.com
Affected: n/a n/a
Published at:
Updated at:

References

Link Tags
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=714867 patch exploit third party advisory issue tracking
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2011-1212.html third party advisory vendor advisory
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/08/30/1 patch mailing list third party advisory
http://ftp.osuosl.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ChangeLog-2.6.21 broken link
https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/ea2bc483ff5caada7c4aa0d5fbf87d3a6590273d third party advisory patch
http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=ea2bc483ff5caada7c4aa0d5fbf87d3a6590273d

Frequently Asked Questions

What is the severity of CVE-2011-2482?
CVE-2011-2482 has been scored as a high severity vulnerability.
How to fix CVE-2011-2482?
To fix CVE-2011-2482, make sure you are using an up-to-date version of the affected component(s) by checking the vendor release notes. As for now, there are no other specific guidelines available.
Is CVE-2011-2482 being actively exploited in the wild?
It is possible that CVE-2011-2482 is being exploited or will be exploited in a near future based on public information. According to its EPSS score, there is a ~1% probability that this vulnerability will be exploited by malicious actors in the next 30 days.
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