CVEvulnerability
CVE-2026-64564
9.8 CRITICAL
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- Status
- Received
- Published
- 2026-08-04
- Last modified
- 2026-10-19
- Assigner
- 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
- CVSS 3.1 (416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67)
- 9.8 CRITICAL — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- Weaknesses
- CWE-416
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
sctp: don't free the ASCONF's own transport in DEL-IP processing
sctp_process_asconf() caches the transport the ASCONF chunk is processed
against in asconf->transport (== chunk->transport, set once in sctp_rcv()).
For an ASCONF located through its Address Parameter by
__sctp_rcv_asconf_lookup(), that cached transport corresponds to the
Address Parameter, which need not be the packet's source address.
sctp_process_asconf_param() rejects a DEL-IP for the packet source address
(ADDIP D8, SCTP_ERROR_DEL_SRC_IP), but nothing protects asconf->transport.
A single ASCONF can therefore carry, in order:
[Address Parameter L] [DEL-IP L] [DEL-IP 0.0.0.0]
where L differs from the source. The DEL-IP for L passes the D8 check and
calls sctp_assoc_rm_peer() on the transport that asconf->transport still
points at, freeing it (RCU-deferred). The following wildcard DEL-IP then
reuses the now-dangling asconf->transport in sctp_assoc_set_primary() and
sctp_assoc_del_nonprimary_peers(): set_primary() dereferences the freed
transport (->ipaddr, ->state) and plants the dangling pointer into
asoc->peer.primary_path / active_path, and del_nonprimary_peers(), keeping
only the pointer that is no longer on the list, removes every real
transport, leaving the association with a transport_count of 0 and
primary_path/active_path pointing at freed memory.
Reject a DEL-IP that targets the transport the ASCONF is being processed
against, mirroring the existing source-address guard, so the wildcard
branch can never reuse a freed transport.
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-416 Use After Free weakness
References
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/2b324ba3494ae958cba16a453e3e71489b4de7fc git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/74e8f3e7114f0e26d1b2c4c048044db9fcc27603 git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/85aca407c560aba81b5ce9d3d6cf94c74077d19b git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/9b2854f86f0b56e9027d68e7a3fc909d1a9b566f git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a63afa1f9b12d5293cbe0b77fd45dc0632533a13 git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a9ce31be4cb1a5dd82b3e0a1d0c3e7cbdcd31293 git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/d136b29bf91dd8e3161281b87de597b7311d9462 git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/fedeb4468987bcaff85fe3061de5ae052d414740 git.kernel.org
- https://matrix.tencent.com/en/2026/08/06/sctphantom-CVE-2026-64564 matrix.tencent.com
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2026/08/06/13 www.openwall.com
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2026/08/06/3 www.openwall.com
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2026/08/06/4 www.openwall.com
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2026/08/07/1 www.openwall.com
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2026/08/07/2 www.openwall.com
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2026/08/07/8 www.openwall.com