CVE-2026-74469
sctp: prevent peer transport count overflow
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: sctp: prevent peer transport count overflow sctp_assoc_add_peer() increments the association's 16-bit transport_count for every new unique peer. Adding the 65,536th transport wraps the count to zero. SCTP sock_diag uses transport_count to reserve the INET_DIAG_PEERS payload, then copies one sockaddr_storage for every entry in transport_addr_list. After the wrap, a diagnostic dump reserves an empty payload and writes 8 MiB of peer addresses past the skb tail. Reject a new unique peer when transport_count has reached U16_MAX. Perform the check after the existing-peer lookup so a duplicate address continues to return its existing transport at the limit.
- Affected
- Linux
- CVSS v3.1 CNA
- 8.8 HIGH
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H - EPSS
- 1.47% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, 73rd percentile
- Published
- 2026-08-15
- Updated
- 2026-10-16
Proof-of-concept exploits (3)
- manizada/DiagSpill6★ · 2026-09-18
- 0xBlackash/CVE-2026-744690★ · 2026-09-28
- HORKimhab/CVE-2026-744690★ · 2026-09-21