CVE-2017-5986

Condición de carrera en la función sctp_wait_for_sndbuf en net/sctp/socket.c en el kernel de Linux en versiones anteriores a 4.9.11 permite a usuarios locales provocar una denegación de servicio (fallo de aserción y pánico) a través de una aplicación multihilo que despega una asociación en un cierto estado de búfer completo.

It was reported that with Linux kernel, earlier than version v4.10-rc8, an application may trigger a BUG_ON in sctp_wait_for_sndbuf if the socket tx buffer is full, a thread is waiting on it to queue more data, and meanwhile another thread peels off the association being used by the first thread.

The kernel packages contain the Linux kernel, the core of any Linux operating system. Security Fix: It was found that the packet_set_ring() function of the Linux kernel's networking implementation did not properly validate certain block-size data. A local attacker with CAP_NET_RAW capability could use this flaw to trigger a buffer overflow, resulting in the crash of the system. Due to the nature of the flaw, privilege escalation cannot be fully ruled out.