CVE-2006-2271: Lksctp

High severity, CVSS 7.8. EPSS: 4.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The ECNE chunk handling in Linux SCTP (lksctp) before 2.6.17 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (kernel panic) via an unexpected chunk when the session is in CLOSED state.

Affected products

• Lksctp Lksctp: version 2.6.0_test1_0.7.2 only; version 2.6.0_test4_0.7.3 only; version 2.6.2_0.9.0 only; version 2.6.3_1.0.0 only; version 2.6.6_1.0.1 only; version 2.6.10_1.0.2 only; …

Published 2006-05-09. Last modified 2026-06-16.