CVE-2008-2826: Canonical Ubuntu Linux

Medium severity, CVSS 4.9. EPSS: 0.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Integer overflow in the sctp_getsockopt_local_addrs_old function in net/sctp/socket.c in the Stream Control Transmission Protocol (sctp) functionality in the Linux kernel before 2.6.25.9 allows local users to cause a denial of service (resource consumption and system outage) via vectors involving a large addr_num field in an sctp_getaddrs_old data structure.

Affected products

• Canonical Ubuntu Linux: version 6.06 only; version 7.04 only; version 7.10 only; version 8.04 only
• Debian Debian Linux: version 4.0 only
• Linux Linux Kernel: before 2.6.25.9 (fixed in 2.6.25.9)
• Opensuse Opensuse: version 10.3 only; version 11.0 only

Published 2008-07-02. Last modified 2026-06-16.