Predictive Vulnerability Intelligence.

Product

  • Product
  • Pricing
  • Documentation

Company

  • About
  • Partnerships
  • Blog
  • Support

Legal

  • Terms
  • Privacy
  • Data Licensing

© 2026 FAUCET Technologies LLC. All rights reserved.

CVE-2008-3792

20
FAUCET Score

CVE-2008-3792 describes a denial-of-service vulnerability in the Stream Control Transmission Protocol (SCTP) implementation of the Linux kernel before version 2.6.26.4. This flaw allows an unauthenticated attacker to trigger a NULL pointer dereference and system panic by invoking SCTP-AUTH API functions without the extension being properly enabled. With a CVSS score of 7.1 (High), this vulnerability has a high impact on availability, requiring medium attack complexity. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code, or significant community discussion surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
2.6.26.3CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:2.6.26.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

7.1HIGH

AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
COMPLETE
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
MEDIUM
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
8.6
Impact Score
6.9
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
2.67%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
84.2%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0267 is in the 42nd percentile among its peer group of 8,920 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.1 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.1 Mastodon, and 0.2 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.1 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (2)

debianpatch availablevia nvd_reference
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: MRG for RHEL-5Fixed in: kernel-rt-0:2.6.24.7-81.el5rt
View patch

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2008-3792Important

kernel: sctp: fix potential panics in the SCTP-AUTH API

Aug 21, 2008

References

git.kernel.org
lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-security-announce/2008-10/msg00010.html
lkml.org / lkml/2008/8/23/49
marc.info
secunia.com / advisories/31881
Vendor Advisory
secunia.com / advisories/32190
Vendor Advisory
secunia.com / advisories/32393
Vendor Advisory
securityreason.com / securityalert/4210
Exploit
exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com / vulnerabilities/45189
debian.org / security/2008/dsa-1636
Patch
kernel.org / pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ChangeLog-2.6.26.4
Vendor Advisory
openwall.com / lists/oss-security/2008/08/25/1
openwall.com / lists/oss-security/2008/08/26/6
openwall.com / lists/oss-security/2008/08/26/8
openwall.com / lists/oss-security/2008/09/26/6
redhat.com / support/errata/RHSA-2008-0857.html
securityfocus.com / archive/1/496256/100/0/threaded
securityfocus.com / bid/31121
ExploitPatch
securitytracker.com / id
trapkit.de / advisories/TKADV2008-007.txt
ubuntu.com / usn/usn-659-1