Bug 2502331 (CVE-2026-63971) - CVE-2026-63971 kernel: sctp: fix race between sctp_wait_for_connect and peeloff
Summary: CVE-2026-63971 kernel: sctp: fix race between sctp_wait_for_connect and peeloff
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Status: NEW
Alias: CVE-2026-63971
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Reported: 2026-07-19 16:02 UTC by OSIDB Bzimport
Modified: 2026-07-21 23:08 UTC (History)
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2026-07-19 16:02:21 UTC
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

sctp: fix race between sctp_wait_for_connect and peeloff

sctp_wait_for_connect() drops and re-acquires the socket lock while
waiting for the association to reach ESTABLISHED state. During this
window, another thread can peeloff the association to a new socket via
getsockopt(SCTP_SOCKOPT_PEELOFF), changing asoc->base.sk. After
re-acquiring the old socket lock, sctp_wait_for_connect() returns
success without noticing the migration — the caller then accesses
the association under the wrong lock in sctp_datamsg_from_user().

Add the same sk != asoc->base.sk check that sctp_wait_for_sndbuf()
already has, returning an error if the association was migrated while
we slept.


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