CVEvulnerability
CVE-2026-72413
- Status
- Received
- Published
- 2026-08-15
- Last modified
- 2026-10-03
- Assigner
- 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
sctp: fix err_chunk memory leaks in INIT handling
When sctp_verify_init() encounters unrecognized parameters, it allocates an
err_chunk to report them. However, this chunk is leaked in several code
paths:
1. In sctp_sf_do_5_1B_init(), if security_sctp_assoc_request() fails after
sctp_verify_init() has populated err_chunk, the function returns
immediately without freeing it.
2. In sctp_sf_do_unexpected_init(), the same leak occurs on the
security_sctp_assoc_request() failure path.
3. In sctp_sf_do_unexpected_init(), on the success path after copying
unrecognized parameters to the INIT-ACK, the function returns without
freeing err_chunk, unlike sctp_sf_do_5_1B_init() which properly frees
it.
Fix all three leaks by adding sctp_chunk_free(err_chunk) calls before
returning in the error paths and on the success path in
sctp_sf_do_unexpected_init().
References
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/1cae40d423a2042c7970f29c00028951ec20db8a git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/43ddbcdc0ed74a8fba4aff5e623ace8135411b93 git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/6acedac7a14af71cfe25024ead28e16a070899e4 git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/94f55994e19e8f0676990b9d5015b58ab6a97e00 git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/9f58a0a4d6c2ed5d341bba64f058f15d1b0c36f2 git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a8e6a839c0e7ca1da752faaab51e2eafb17483a4 git.kernel.org