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Medium severity5.5NVD Advisory· Published Apr 20, 2023· Updated Jun 17, 2026

CVE-2023-2177

CVE-2023-2177

Description

A null pointer dereference issue was found in the sctp network protocol in net/sctp/stream_sched.c in Linux Kernel. If stream_in allocation is failed, stream_out is freed which would further be accessed. A local user could use this flaw to crash the system or potentially cause a denial of service.

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