CVE-2026-68376 PUBLISHED

sctp: fix auth_hmacs array size in struct sctp_cookie

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: 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.

Product Status

Vendor Linux
Product Linux
Versions Default: unaffected
  • affected from 1f485649f52929d9937b346a920a522a7363e202 to 0b4414e43e0861d67276031cc21401d7e87de3da (excl.)
  • affected from 1f485649f52929d9937b346a920a522a7363e202 to d0a59ba58578e2b330fff80a44fe519f3ba7d8c7 (excl.)
  • affected from 1f485649f52929d9937b346a920a522a7363e202 to a8d20ba0ab518c9ccbcde258f25fc1ee6e51d5db (excl.)
  • affected from 1f485649f52929d9937b346a920a522a7363e202 to 3aa40c3bccac2312ea7cf97f329190637f972b5d (excl.)
  • affected from 1f485649f52929d9937b346a920a522a7363e202 to e0b5252a59383b77d1b8dbeda00b7184dd95f4d3 (excl.)
Vendor Linux
Product Linux
Versions Default: affected
  • Version 2.6.24 is affected
  • unaffected from 0 to 2.6.24 (excl.)
  • unaffected from 6.6.148 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-rc4 to * (incl.)

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