CVE-2009-0065: Linux Kernel

High severity, CVSS 10.0. EPSS: 16.7% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Buffer overflow in net/sctp/sm_statefuns.c in the Stream Control Transmission Protocol (sctp) implementation in the Linux kernel before 2.6.28-git8 allows remote attackers to have an unknown impact via an FWD-TSN (aka FORWARD-TSN) chunk with a large stream ID.

Affected products

• Linux Linux Kernel: up to and including 2.6.27; version 2.2.27 only; version 2.4.36 only; version 2.4.36.1 only; version 2.4.36.2 only; version 2.4.36.3 only; …

Published 2009-01-07. Last modified 2026-06-16.