A flaw was found in the Linux SCTP stack. A blind attacker may be able to kill an existing SCTP association through invalid chunks if the attacker knows the IP-addresses and port numbers being used and the attacker can send packets with spoofed IP addresses.
CVE-2021-3772
Score 6.5 from GitHub Security Advisory published 2022-03-04. NVD baseline CVSS 6.5; sources differ by 0.0.
- Lower severity and no public exploit yet
A fix is available — apply it.
- CVSS v3
- 6.5
- EG Score
- 6.5(medium)
- EG Risk
- —
- EPSS
- 66.0%
- KEV
- Not listed
Published
March 2, 2022
Last Modified
November 21, 2024
References (16)
- secalert@redhathttps://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2000694
- secalert@redhathttps://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=32f8807a48ae55be0e76880cfe8607a18b5bb0df
- secalert@redhathttps://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/32f8807a48ae55be0e76880cfe8607a18b5bb0df
- secalert@redhathttps://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2022/03/msg00012.html
- secalert@redhathttps://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20221007-0001/
- secalert@redhathttps://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2021-3772
- secalert@redhathttps://www.debian.org/security/2022/dsa-5096
- secalert@redhathttps://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpujul2022.html
- af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2000694
- af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=32f8807a48ae55be0e76880cfe8607a18b5bb0df
- af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/32f8807a48ae55be0e76880cfe8607a18b5bb0df
- af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2022/03/msg00012.html
- af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20221007-0001/
- af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2021-3772
- af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://www.debian.org/security/2022/dsa-5096
Vendor Advisories for CVE-2021-3772(2)
These vendors published their own advisory mentioning this CVE — often with vendor-specific remediation steps + affected product lists not in NVD.
Patch Availability(9)
| Vendor / Ecosystem | Fixed in / Patch | Released | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| ubuntu | linux-tools-aws-hwe (4.15.0.1133.122) @ xenial | 2026-05-26 | ubuntu |
| ubuntu | linux-headers-azure-fde (5.4.0.1083.87+cvm1.24) @ focal | 2026-05-26 | ubuntu |
| ubuntu | linux-tools-4.4.0-239-lowlatency (4.4.0-239.273~14.04.1) @ trusty | 2026-05-26 | ubuntu |
| ubuntu | linux-image-4.4.0-1117-aws (4.4.0-1117.123) @ trusty | 2026-05-26 | ubuntu |
| ubuntu | linux-image-lowlatency (5.13.0.28.38) @ impish | 2026-05-26 | ubuntu |
| ubuntu | linux-tools-4.4.0-1155-aws (4.4.0-1155.170) @ xenial | 2026-05-26 | ubuntu |
| ubuntu | linux-oem-5.14-headers-5.14.0-1008 (5.14.0-1008.8) @ focal | 2026-05-26 | ubuntu |
| redhat | kernel-rt-0:4.18.0-372.9.1.rt7.166.el8 | 2022-05-10 | redhat |
| redhat | kernel-0:4.18.0-372.9.1.el8 | 2022-05-10 | redhat |
Patches are aggregated from vendor advisories (Red Hat, Microsoft, Cisco, GitHub) and package ecosystems (OSV, GHSA). Multiple rows for the same upstream release have been deduplicated.
Weakness Classification(1)
MITRE Common Weakness Enumeration — the root-cause categories this CVE belongs to.
Additional Vendor Advisories
(8)
Vendors that published advisories for this CVE beyond the curated set above. Broader coverage but minimal per-row detail — click through for the original advisory.
- Microsoft MSRCCVE-2021-37722022-03-11
A flaw was found in the Linux SCTP stack. A blind attacker may be able to kill an existing SCTP association through invalid chunks if the attacker knows the IP-addresses and port numbers being used and the attacker can send packets with spoofed IP addresses.
- UbuntuUSN-5165-1LOW
Linux kernel (OEM) vulnerabilities
- UbuntuUSN-5265-1LOW
Linux kernel vulnerabilities
- UbuntuUSN-5466-1LOW
Linux kernel vulnerabilities
- UbuntuUSN-5467-1LOW
Linux kernel vulnerabilities
- UbuntuUSN-6001-1LOW
Linux kernel (AWS) vulnerabilities
- UbuntuUSN-6013-1LOW
Linux kernel (AWS) vulnerabilities
- UbuntuUSN-6014-1LOW
Linux kernel vulnerabilities
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