CVE-2006-2275 Denial of service in n/a

What is CVE-2006-2275?

CVE-2006-2275 is a high-severity denial of service vulnerability in Canonical Ubuntu Linux, published on 9 May 2006. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.

Official description

Linux SCTP (lksctp) before 2.6.17 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (deadlock) via a large number of small messages to a receiver application that cannot process the messages quickly enough, which leads to "spillover of the receive buffer."

Weakness: CWE-667

Which versions are affected by CVE-2006-2275?

It affects 2 products.

Products include Canonical Ubuntu Linux, Lksctp Stream Control Transmission Protocol.

How do I fix CVE-2006-2275?

Apply the vendor's patch.

Upgrade, then put limits on request size, rate and nesting depth so one client cannot exhaust the service. More about Denial of service.

Is CVE-2006-2275 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2006-2275 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Other vulnerabilities in Canonical Ubuntu Linux

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• CVE-2019-16928 Exim Out-of-bounds Write Exploited Critical 9.8
• CVE-2018-6789 Exim Buffer Overflow Exploited Critical 9.8
• CVE-2015-2590 Oracle Java SE and Java SE Embedded Remote Code Execution Exploited Critical 9.8

All Canonical Ubuntu Linux vulnerabilities

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as GHSA-j2xg-37rj-vrf9.