| Name | CVE-2015-5283 |
| 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. |
| Source | CVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, bugtraq, EDB, Metasploit, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, Mageia, GitHub code/issues, web search, more) |
| NVD severity | medium (attack range: local) |
The table below lists information on source packages.
| Source Package | Release | Version | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| linux (PTS) | jessie (security), jessie | 3.16.56-1+deb8u1 | fixed |
| stretch | 4.9.82-1+deb9u3 | fixed | |
| stretch (security) | 4.9.88-1+deb9u1 | fixed | |
| buster | 4.16.12-1 | fixed | |
| sid | 4.16.16-2 | fixed |
The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.
| Package | Type | Release | Fixed Version | Urgency | Origin | Debian Bugs |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| linux | source | (unstable) | 4.2.1-2 | medium | ||
| linux | source | jessie | 3.16.7-ckt11-1+deb8u5 | medium | ||
| linux | source | wheezy | (not affected) | |||
| linux-2.6 | source | (unstable) | (not affected) |
[wheezy] - linux <not-affected> (Vulnerable code not present)
- linux-2.6 <not-affected> (Vulnerable code not present)
Fixed by: https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=8e2d61e0aed2b7c4ecb35844fe07e0b2b762dee4 (v4.3-rc3)
Introduced by: https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=4db67e808640e3934d82ce61ee8e2e89fd877ba8 (v3.7-rc1)