VULNERABILITY INTELLIGENCE

CVE-2014-3688

CVSS score5 MEDIUM
EPSS probability5.85%
CISA KEVNot currently listed
Published2014-11-30
Last modified2026-06-17
CVSS vectorAV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

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.

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