CVEvulnerability
CVE-2026-74688
9.8 CRITICAL
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- Status
- Received
- Published
- 2026-08-22
- Last modified
- 2026-10-16
- 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
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
sctp: clear control chunk transport if it is being removed
sctp_make_heartbeat_ack() caches the destination transport in
chunk->transport without taking a reference. When src_out_of_asoc_ok is
enabled, the HEARTBEAT ACK may remain queued on control_chunk_list instead
of being transmitted immediately.
If the peer transport is removed while the chunk is still queued,
sctp_assoc_rm_peer() drops the transport and schedules it for RCU freeing,
but only clears cached transport pointers in out_chunk_list. The queued
control chunk therefore retains a dangling transport pointer.
Once an ASCONF_ACK clears the suppression and the queued control chunk is
transmitted, SCTP dereferences the stale transport pointer, leading to a
use-after-free.
Fix this by also clearing chunk->transport for queued control chunks in
control_chunk_list when removing the transport.
References
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/18d704bdd809377dfd81a3c2f42426763b5da227 git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/4d6b9cac6df5e0cfef1a66b3edd7aebdb9e4b7e7 git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/6160e756db81d6cb63e3e2952efcf6c5134be385 git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/8de65194a04d2552cd39b6c67d942d490f22d174 git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/936658ec41c28c397ef390140e02d4c91ade92f0 git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/c9158ceaf27780ef64534ad72f44ffde3f8ccc49 git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/dbb3f418a8665ffb0514e1a9520ab6a1c5d4d886 git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/fad4766a74220fe579c6fcaa10ba01c23529814f git.kernel.org