CVE-2026-74469 PUBLISHED

sctp: prevent peer transport count overflow

Assigner: Linux
Reserved: 15.08.2026 Published: 15.08.2026 Updated: 15.08.2026

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.

Product Status

Vendor Linux
Product Linux
Versions Default: unaffected
  • affected from 8f840e47f190cbe61a96945c13e9551048d42cef to 546221b86ceeba0d8fec92d46a0604bb7b62be07 (excl.)
  • affected from 8f840e47f190cbe61a96945c13e9551048d42cef to 09e722030e8148ba4ed1e42c6b2ea57bda9f9895 (excl.)
  • affected from 8f840e47f190cbe61a96945c13e9551048d42cef to 4ba5bf7ed50f235ea4581de8e7a0002f4ed287b0 (excl.)
  • affected from 8f840e47f190cbe61a96945c13e9551048d42cef to 6201cd1d70f1670c5b31ac506e7ab2fa7b8e7f75 (excl.)
  • affected from 8f840e47f190cbe61a96945c13e9551048d42cef to bd0e9289e2642f6a5c54faad304ce0f41e926d22 (excl.)
Vendor Linux
Product Linux
Versions Default: affected
  • Version 4.7 is affected
  • unaffected from 0 to 4.7 (excl.)
  • unaffected from 6.6.151 to 6.6.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 6.12.103 to 6.12.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 6.18.44 to 6.18.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 7.1.8 to 7.1.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 7.2-rc6 to * (incl.)

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