CVE-2014-7841: Linux Kernel

Medium severity, CVSS 5.0. EPSS: 5.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The sctp_process_param function in net/sctp/sm_make_chunk.c in the SCTP implementation in the Linux kernel before 3.17.4, when ASCONF is used, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and system crash) via a malformed INIT chunk.

Affected products

• Linux Linux Kernel: up to and including 3.17.3; version 3.0 only; version 3.0.1 only; version 3.0.2 only; version 3.0.3 only; version 3.0.4 only; …

Published 2014-11-30. Last modified 2026-06-17.