CVE-2008-4618 describes a denial-of-service vulnerability in the Stream Control Transmission Protocol (SCTP) implementation within the Linux kernel versions prior to 2.6.27. An attacker can trigger a system panic by sending specially crafted SCTP packets with an invalid parameter length, exploiting a protocol violation. This vulnerability carries a high severity CVSS score of 7.8, indicating a network-based attack with low complexity that can lead to a complete loss of availability for affected systems. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion surrounding this CVE.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
<= 2.6.26.5CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
2.2.27CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:2.2.27:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
2.4.36CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:2.4.36:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
2.4.36.1CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:2.4.36.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
2.4.36.2CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:2.4.36.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 2.0
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C
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