CVE-2026-68376: high-severity vulnerability in Linux
sctp: fix auth_hmacs array size in struct sctp_cookie
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41Vexday Risk Score
No sign of exploitation. It has a public proof of concept.
ssvc Attendcvss 8.1epss 0.6%
from disclosure to weapon43 days
Published on NVDAug 10
1st PoC+43d
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
sctp: fix auth_hmacs array size in struct sctp_cookie
The auth_hmacs array in struct sctp_cookie is supposed to store a complete
SCTP_AUTH_HMAC_ALGO parameter, which consists of a struct sctp_paramhdr
followed by N HMAC identifiers.
However, the array size was calculated using an extra 2 bytes instead of
sizeof(struct sctp_paramhdr), which is 4 bytes. When four HMAC identifiers
are configured, the HMAC-ALGO parameter stored in the endpoint is larger
than the auth_hmacs buffer in the cookie.
As a result, sctp_association_init() copies beyond the end of auth_hmacs
when initializing the association, corrupting the adjacent auth_chunks
field. This can lead to an invalid HMAC identifier being accepted and later
cause an out-of-bounds read in sctp_auth_get_hmac().
Fix the array size calculation by including the full SCTP parameter header
size.
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Affected products
Linux · Linuxpublic PoCs found — 1
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References
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/0528485f27016a42804abe01aa61b39d85fa803ehttps://git.kernel.org/stable/c/0b4414e43e0861d67276031cc21401d7e87de3dahttps://git.kernel.org/stable/c/317731d01b03c529809df36d3a7d149677a8729dhttps://git.kernel.org/stable/c/3aa40c3bccac2312ea7cf97f329190637f972b5dhttps://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a8d20ba0ab518c9ccbcde258f25fc1ee6e51d5dbhttps://git.kernel.org/stable/c/d0a59ba58578e2b330fff80a44fe519f3ba7d8c7https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/e0b5252a59383b77d1b8dbeda00b7184dd95f4d3https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ee5e65964f456adfe14d526fba0bd055de98ecf3