Import Source
https://github.com/microsoft/AzureLinuxVulnerabilityData/blob/main/osv/AZL-55916.json
JSON Data
https://api.test.osv.dev/v1/vulns/AZL-55916
Upstream
Published
2025-01-21T12:15:27Z
Modified
2026-04-01T05:19:44.083899Z
Severity
  • 5.5 (Medium) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H CVSS Calculator
Summary
CVE-2024-57938 affecting package kernel for versions less than 5.15.176.3-1
Details

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

net/sctp: Prevent autoclose integer overflow in sctpassociationinit()

While by default maxautoclose equals to INTMAX / HZ, one may set net.sctp.maxautoclose to UINTMAX. There is code in sctpassociationinit() that can consequently trigger overflow.

References

Affected packages

Azure Linux:2 / kernel

Package

Name
kernel
Purl
pkg:rpm/azure-linux/kernel

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
5.15.176.3-1

Database specific

source
"https://github.com/microsoft/AzureLinuxVulnerabilityData/blob/main/osv/AZL-55916.json"