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CVE-2013-2206

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2013-2206 describes a denial-of-service vulnerability in the Stream Control Transmission Protocol (SCTP) implementation of the Linux kernel prior to version 3.8.5. Specifically, improper handling of duplicate COOKIE ECHO chunks can lead to a NULL pointer dereference and system crash. This vulnerability has a CVSS score of 5.4, indicating a medium severity, and can be exploited remotely with high attack complexity, resulting in a complete loss of availability. There is no evidence of active exploitation, publicly available exploit code, or significant community discussion or media coverage regarding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
<= 3.8.4CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
3.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:3.0:rc1:*:*:*:*:*:*
3.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:3.0:rc2:*:*:*:*:*:*
3.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:3.0:rc3:*:*:*:*:*:*
3.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:3.0:rc4:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

5.4MEDIUM

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

Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
COMPLETE
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
HIGH
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
4.9
Impact Score
6.9
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
4.71%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
90.9%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0471 is in the 89th percentile among its peer group of 19,958 CVEs.

Social Chatter

No social media mentions found for this CVE.

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

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

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

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (4)

github_advisorypatch availablevia nvd_reference
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: OpenStack 3 for RHEL 6Fixed in: kernel-0:2.6.32-358.118.1.openstack.el6
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5Fixed in: kernel-0:2.6.18-348.16.1.el5
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6Fixed in: kernel-0:2.6.32-358.18.1.el6
View patch

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2013-2206Important

kernel: sctp: duplicate cookie handling NULL pointer dereference

Mar 13, 2013

References

git.kernel.org
lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-security-announce/2013-11/msg00020.html
lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-security-announce/2013-11/msg00021.html
lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-security-announce/2013-11/msg00023.html
lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-security-announce/2013-11/msg00024.html
lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-updates/2013-12/msg00129.html
rhn.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2013-1166.html
rhn.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2013-1173.html
bugzilla.redhat.com / show_bug.cgi
github.com / torvalds/linux/commit/f2815633504b442ca0b0605c16bf3d88a3a0fcea
ExploitPatch
debian.org / security/2013/dsa-2766
kernel.org / pub/linux/kernel/v3.x/ChangeLog-3.8.5
openwall.com / lists/oss-security/2013/06/21/1
ubuntu.com / usn/USN-1939-1