National Cyber-Alert System
Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2008-3276
Original release date:08/18/2008
Last revised:02/21/2009
Source:
US-CERT/NIST
Overview
Integer overflow in the dccp_setsockopt_change function in net/dccp/proto.c in the Datagram Congestion Control Protocol (DCCP) subsystem in the Linux kernel 2.6.17-rc1 through 2.6.26.2 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (panic) via a crafted integer value, related to Change L and Change R options without at least one byte in the dccpsf_val field.
Impact
CVSS Severity (version 2.0):
Impact Subscore:
6.9
Exploitability Subscore:
8.6
CVSS Version 2 Metrics:
Access Vector: Network exploitable
Access Complexity: Medium
Authentication: Not required to exploit
Impact Type:Allows disruption of serviceUnknown
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External Source: CONFIRM
Name: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=459226
External Source: UBUNTU
Name: USN-659-1
External Source: SECTRACK
Name: 1020705
External Source: BID
Name: 30704
External Source: REDHAT
Name: RHSA-2008:0957
External Source: REDHAT
Name: RHSA-2008:0857
External Source: MLIST
Name: [oss-security] 20080815 CVE-2008-3276 Linux kernel dccp_setsockopt_change() integer overflow
External Source: VUPEN
Name: ADV-2008-2406
External Source: DEBIAN
Name: DSA-1653
External Source: DEBIAN
Name: DSA-1636
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 32485
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 32393
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 32237
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 32190
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 31881
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 31836
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 31509
External Source: CONFIRM
Name: http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-2.6.26.y.git;a=commit;h=3e8a0a559c66ee9e7468195691a56fefc3589740