cve-2023-2177
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2023-04-20 00:00
Modified
2025-03-18 19:58
Severity ?
5.5 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Summary
A null pointer dereference issue was found in the sctp network protocol in net/sctp/stream_sched.c in Linux Kernel. If stream_in allocation is failed, stream_out is freed which would further be accessed. A local user could use this flaw to crash the system or potentially cause a denial of service.
References
secalert@redhat.comhttps://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net.git/commit/?id=181d8d2066c0Mailing List, Patch, Vendor Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net.git/commit/?id=181d8d2066c0Mailing List, Patch, Vendor Advisory
Impacted products
n/aLinux
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