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2015 Mar 04
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Memory issue in kernel sctp implementation
..., using lksctp-tools. So far I've not seen the problem with
other distributions yet.
The problem is that whenever a SCTP client connection is initiated to
a second host and port at which no SCTP server application is
listening
The scenario is simple:
- call socket() to create a socket.
- call sctp_connectx() to establish a connection.
The last call is repeated periodically to retry to establish a connection.
When looking on the wire using wireshark it shows that an SCTP INIT
packet is sent to the second host, which replies with an SCTP ABORT.
This is exactly according to the SCTP specification. Ho...