CVE-2016-9555
Published · Updated
8Vexday Risk Score
No sign of exploitation. No public exploitation artifact known so far.
ssvc Trackepss 10%
exploitation probability
10%top 4% of all CVEs
observed exploitation
nono source reports it
The sctp_sf_ootb function in net/sctp/sm_statefuns.c in the Linux kernel before 4.8.8 lacks chunk-length checking for the first chunk, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds slab access) or possibly have unspecified other impact via crafted SCTP data.
Affected products
n/a · n/aReferences
http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=bf911e985d6bbaa328c20c3e05f4eb03de11fdd6http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-12/msg00044.htmlhttp://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-12/msg00054.htmlhttp://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-12/msg00055.htmlhttp://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-12/msg00056.htmlhttp://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-12/msg00067.htmlhttp://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-12/msg00070.htmlhttp://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-12/msg00073.htmlhttp://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-12/msg00076.htmlhttp://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-12/msg00077.htmlhttp://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-12/msg00087.htmlhttp://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017-0086.html