Vulnerability CVE-2023-2177


Published: 2023-04-20

Description:
A null pointer dereference issue was found in the sctp network protocol in net/sctp/stream_sched.c in Linux Kernel. If stream_in allocation is failed, stream_out is freed which would further be accessed. A local user could use this flaw to crash the system or potentially cause a denial of service.

 References:
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net.git/commit/?id=181d8d2066c0

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