CVE detail

CVE-2011-1573 — CVE-2011-1573

Published 2012-02-02 · Modified 2026-06-16 · Vendor linux · Product linux_kernel · Source nvd

MEDIUM

severity

CVSS-derived band

5.9

CVSS v3

0–10 scale

0.0279

EPSS probability

exploitation probability, 30d

85.0%

EPSS percentile

percentile vs all CVEs

NOT LISTED

CISA KEV

known exploited catalog

Description

net/sctp/sm_make_chunk.c in the Linux kernel before 2.6.34, when addip_enable and auth_enable are used, does not consider the amount of zero padding during calculation of chunk lengths for (1) INIT and (2) INIT ACK chunks, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (OOPS) via crafted packet data.

Remediation

No vendor-published fix data in our corpus for this CVE. Check the references below or the vendor's PSIRT / security advisories page.

References

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