Bug 2513253 (CVE-2026-68376) - CVE-2026-68376 kernel: Linux kernel SCTP: Out-of-bounds read due to incorrect array size calculation
Summary: CVE-2026-68376 kernel: Linux kernel SCTP: Out-of-bounds read due to incorrect...
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Status: NEW
Alias: CVE-2026-68376
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Reported: 2026-08-10 12:27 UTC by OSIDB Bzimport
Modified: 2026-08-14 12:21 UTC (History)
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2026-08-10 12:27:13 UTC
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.


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