CVE-2026-68161 PUBLISHED

sctp: close UDP tunnel sockets during netns teardown

Assigner: Linux
Reserved: 30.07.2026 Published: 10.08.2026 Updated: 10.08.2026

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

sctp: close UDP tunnel sockets during netns teardown

proc_sctp_do_udp_port() starts per-net SCTP UDP tunneling sockets when net.sctp.udp_port is set, and stops/restarts them when the sysctl value changes. The netns exit path does not stop these sockets, so a namespace can be torn down while its SCTP UDP tunnel sockets are still installed.

Close the UDP tunnel sockets from sctp_ctrlsock_exit() after unregistering the per-net sysctl table. This prevents new sysctl writes from racing in while the sockets are being released, and closes the sockets before the control socket is destroyed.

Product Status

Vendor Linux
Product Linux
Versions Default: unaffected
  • affected from 046c052b475e7119b6a30e3483e2888fc606a2f8 to c6eb2d615210b80339548ab07c0230edaab9a6c7 (excl.)
  • affected from 046c052b475e7119b6a30e3483e2888fc606a2f8 to 8ff78591d309c50a4fdab683b68dd8d512a270dd (excl.)
  • affected from 046c052b475e7119b6a30e3483e2888fc606a2f8 to 3bf0e349cbb4f975f35eb22753acc346b89c66a0 (excl.)
  • affected from 046c052b475e7119b6a30e3483e2888fc606a2f8 to 37ff9794be48d0caa37687e04d09675f9c849121 (excl.)
  • affected from 046c052b475e7119b6a30e3483e2888fc606a2f8 to ffb2bd7ade36ec4da32c46a6eddbf4515316d08c (excl.)
Vendor Linux
Product Linux
Versions Default: affected
  • Version 5.11 is affected
  • unaffected from 0 to 5.11 (excl.)
  • unaffected from 6.6.151 to 6.6.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 6.12.101 to 6.12.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 6.18.42 to 6.18.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 7.1.6 to 7.1.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 7.2-rc5 to * (incl.)

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