Bug 2517043 (CVE-2026-74469) - CVE-2026-74469 kernel: sctp: prevent peer transport count overflow
Summary: CVE-2026-74469 kernel: sctp: prevent peer transport count overflow
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Status: NEW
Alias: CVE-2026-74469
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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medium
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Reported: 2026-08-15 12:46 UTC by OSIDB Bzimport
Modified: 2026-08-19 18:14 UTC (History)
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2026-08-15 12:46:25 UTC
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.

Comment 1 Mauro Matteo Cascella 2026-08-19 18:10:36 UTC
Upstream advisory:
https://lore.kernel.org/linux-cve-announce/2026081534-CVE-2026-74469-d3f3@gregkh/T


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