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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.
- Products
- linux
- Affected versions
- Not specified
- Fixed versions
- 3.16.7-1
- CVEs
- CVE-2014-3688
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 31 Oct 2026, 21:45 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
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.
osv:DEBIAN-CVE-2014-3688
linux
Fixed versions: 3.16.7-1
linux
Fixed versions: 3.16.7-1
linux
Fixed versions: 3.16.7-1
Complete source record
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"modified": "2026-10-23T15:47:36.895807625Z",
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"source_id": "core-osv",
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"published_at": "2014-11-30T01:59:02.307+00:00"
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