CVE-2015-5283 Race condition in n/a

What is CVE-2015-5283?

CVE-2015-5283 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Linux kernel, published on 19 Oct 2015. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

The sctp_init function in net/sctp/protocol.c in the Linux kernel before 4.2.3 has an incorrect sequence of protocol-initialization steps, which allows local users to cause a denial of service (panic or memory corruption) by creating SCTP sockets before all of the steps have finished.

Weakness: CWE-119

Which versions are affected by CVE-2015-5283?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Linux kernel.

How do I fix CVE-2015-5283?

Upgrade to a fixed version.

Is CVE-2015-5283 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2015-5283 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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• CVE-2022-0185 Linux Kernel Heap-Based Buffer Overflow Exploited High 8.4
• CVE-2013-2094 Linux Kernel Privilege Escalation Exploited High 8.4
• CVE-2026-53362 Linux Kernel Unspecified Exploited High 7.8

All Linux kernel vulnerabilities

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
• How this page is made

Also known as DEBIAN-CVE-2015-5283, GHSA-3v9v-m657-f3rh, UBUNTU-CVE-2015-5283.