{
  "threat_severity" : "Important",
  "public_date" : "2008-08-21T00:00:00Z",
  "bugzilla" : {
    "description" : "kernel: sctp: fix potential panics in the SCTP-AUTH API",
    "id" : "459955",
    "url" : "https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=459955"
  },
  "details" : [ "net/sctp/socket.c in the Stream Control Transmission Protocol (sctp) implementation in the Linux kernel before 2.6.26.4 does not verify that the SCTP-AUTH extension is enabled before proceeding with SCTP-AUTH API functions, which allows attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and panic) via vectors that result in calls to (1) sctp_setsockopt_auth_chunk, (2) sctp_setsockopt_hmac_ident, (3) sctp_setsockopt_auth_key, (4) sctp_setsockopt_active_key, (5) sctp_setsockopt_del_key, (6) sctp_getsockopt_maxburst, (7) sctp_getsockopt_active_key, (8) sctp_getsockopt_peer_auth_chunks, or (9) sctp_getsockopt_local_auth_chunks." ],
  "statement" : "This issue did not affect the versions of Linux kernel as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 2.1, 3, 4, and 5.",
  "affected_release" : [ {
    "product_name" : "MRG for RHEL-5",
    "release_date" : "2008-10-07T00:00:00Z",
    "advisory" : "RHSA-2008:0857",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_mrg:1::el5",
    "package" : "kernel-rt-0:2.6.24.7-81.el5rt"
  } ],
  "references" : [ "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2008-3792\nhttps://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2008-3792" ],
  "name" : "CVE-2008-3792",
  "csaw" : false
}