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CVSSv2

CVE-2006-2275

Published: 09/05/2006 Updated: 15/02/2024
CVSS v2 Base Score: 5 | Impact Score: 2.9 | Exploitability Score: 10
CVSS v3 Base Score: 7.5 | Impact Score: 3.6 | Exploitability Score: 3.9
VMScore: 445
Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Vulnerability Summary

Linux SCTP (lksctp) prior to 2.6.17 allows remote malicious users to cause a denial of service (deadlock) via a large number of small messages to a receiver application that cannot process the messages quickly enough, which leads to "spillover of the receive buffer."

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lksctp stream control transmission protocol

canonical ubuntu linux 5.04

canonical ubuntu linux 5.10

canonical ubuntu linux 6.06

Vendor Advisories

An integer overflow was discovered in the do_replace() function A local user process with the CAP_NET_ADMIN capability could exploit this to execute arbitrary commands with full root privileges However, none of Ubuntu’s supported packages use this capability with any non-root user, so this only affects you if you use some third party software l ...