{
  "threat_severity" : "Important",
  "public_date" : "2008-09-30T00:00:00Z",
  "bugzilla" : {
    "description" : "kernel: sctp: Fix kernel panic while process protocol violation parameter",
    "id" : "465730",
    "url" : "https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=465730"
  },
  "details" : [ "The Stream Control Transmission Protocol (sctp) implementation in the Linux kernel before 2.6.27 does not properly handle a protocol violation in which a parameter has an invalid length, which allows attackers to cause a denial of service (panic) via unspecified vectors, related to sctp_sf_violation_paramlen, sctp_sf_abort_violation, sctp_make_abort_violation, and incorrect data types in function calls." ],
  "statement" : "The versions of Linux kernel as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 2.1, 3, 4, and 5 were not affected by this issue.",
  "affected_release" : [ {
    "product_name" : "MRG for RHEL-5",
    "release_date" : "2009-01-22T00:00:00Z",
    "advisory" : "RHSA-2009:0009",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_mrg:1::el5",
    "package" : "kernel-rt-0:2.6.24.7-93.el5rt"
  } ],
  "references" : [ "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2008-4618\nhttps://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2008-4618" ],
  "name" : "CVE-2008-4618",
  "csaw" : false
}