Description: SUSE has issued an update for the kernel. This fixes some vulnerabilities, which can be exploited by malicious, local users to cause a DoS (Denial of Service) and potentially gain escalated privileges, and by malicious people to cause a DoS.
A vulnerability is caused due an integer overflow within the "sctp_setsockopt_auth_key()" function in net/sctp/socket.c, which can be exploited to e.g. cause a DoS via a specially crafted "sca_keylength" field associated with the SCTP_AUTH_KEY option.
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