CVE-2006-1527: Linux Kernel

Medium severity, CVSS 5.0. EPSS: 3.8% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The SCTP-netfilter code in Linux kernel before 2.6.16.13 allows remote attackers to trigger a denial of service (infinite loop) via unknown vectors that cause an invalid SCTP chunk size to be processed by the for_each_sctp_chunk function.

Affected products

• Linux Linux Kernel: version 2.6.16.12 only

Published 2006-05-03. Last modified 2026-06-16.