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CVE-2014-3688
The SCTP implementation in the Linux kernel before 3.17.4 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) by…
Medium5.0EPSS 5.9%
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Description
The SCTP implementation in the Linux kernel before 3.17.4 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) by triggering a large number of chunks in an association's output queue, as demonstrated by ASCONF probes, related to net/sctp/inqueue.c and net/sctp/sm_statefuns.c.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 2.0 | Medium5.0 | AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 5.9% · top 6.8% of all CVEs (5 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 5.0.
Weakness
Affected products
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References (16)
- [oss-security] 20141113 Linux kernel: SCTP issues (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
- HPSBGN03285 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_HPx_transferred
- SUSE-SU-2015:0736 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSEx_transferred
- USN-2418-1 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTUx_transferred
- SUSE-SU-2015:0652 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSEx_transferred
- RHSA-2015:0062 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- USN-2417-1 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTUx_transferred
- HPSBGN03282 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_HPx_transferred
- DSA-3060 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIANx_transferred
- https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/26b87c7881006311828bb0ab271a551a62dcceb4 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=26b87c7881006311828bb0ab271a551a62dcceb4 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- SUSE-SU-2015:0481 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSEx_transferred
- openSUSE-SU-2015:0566 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSEx_transferred
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1155745 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v3.x/ChangeLog-3.17.4 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- RHSA-2015:0115 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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