Bug 2513166 (CVE-2026-68320)

Summary: CVE-2026-68320 kernel: sctp: fix auth_chunk_list capacity check in sctp_auth_ep_add_chunkid
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Version: unspecifiedCC: akhatavk, aos-team-art-private, asdas, dpaolell, jdelft, jupierce, lgarciaa, mbiarnes, ppalepu, ppostler, prdhamdh, rhel-process-autobot, sghai, sidsharm, suppawar, vlaad, watson-tool-maintainers
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A flaw was found in the Linux kernel's Stream Control Transmission Protocol (SCTP) implementation. This vulnerability occurs because the `sctp_auth_ep_add_chunkid` function allows more data to be written than the allocated buffer can hold during the initialization of an SCTP association. A remote attacker could potentially exploit this buffer overflow to cause memory corruption, leading to a denial of service or other unpredictable system behavior.
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2026-08-10 12:22:52 UTC
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

sctp: fix auth_chunk_list capacity check in sctp_auth_ep_add_chunkid

sctp_auth_ep_add_chunkid() uses SCTP_NUM_CHUNK_TYPES (20) as the
capacity limit for ep->auth_chunk_list, allowing it to hold up to
20 chunk entries (param_hdr.length up to 24). However, the copy
destination asoc->c.auth_chunks in struct sctp_cookie is only
SCTP_AUTH_MAX_CHUNKS (16) entries (20 bytes). When more than 16
chunks are added, sctp_association_init() memcpy overflows the
destination by up to 4 bytes.

Fix by using SCTP_AUTH_MAX_CHUNKS as the capacity limit, matching
the destination capacity.