CVE-2026-98846 PUBLISHED

sctp: check RCV_SHUTDOWN after the sendmsg connect wait

Assigner: Linux
Reserved: 25.09.2026 Published: 18.10.2026 Updated: 18.10.2026

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

sctp: check RCV_SHUTDOWN after the sendmsg connect wait

sctp_wait_for_connect() drops the socket lock while it sleeps. An out-of-the-blue ABORT can then be processed from the socket backlog and unlink the association. If a concurrent shutdown(fd, SHUT_RD) sets RCV_SHUTDOWN, the waiter breaks with err == 0 before checking asoc->base.dead. Its final sctp_association_put() can then free the association, leaving sctp_sendmsg_to_asoc() to continue with a dangling pointer.

Check RCV_SHUTDOWN along with the wait error in sctp_sendmsg_to_asoc() before using the association again. The check only accesses the socket, so it needs no additional association reference. Return the existing -ESRCH so that sctp_sendmsg() skips freeing a new association that may already have been destroyed.

Keep sctp_wait_for_connect() unchanged to preserve its behavior for the connect() caller.

Product Status

Vendor Linux
Product Linux
Versions Default: unaffected
  • affected from 668c9beb9020d5834ee9e43c208190a07d2b1928 to e8f972b1759d26bbefe4c524caae1ed7c8a593bd (excl.)
  • affected from 668c9beb9020d5834ee9e43c208190a07d2b1928 to e701345d886e831fb593a0870d69c8c5de6fc938 (excl.)
  • affected from 668c9beb9020d5834ee9e43c208190a07d2b1928 to 222c41e0f50f1d5028be9baf0e1dcfc0bfa7f669 (excl.)
  • affected from 668c9beb9020d5834ee9e43c208190a07d2b1928 to 4f1da630d13de0370e2f6361f961f1c8b384af1c (excl.)
Vendor Linux
Product Linux
Versions Default: affected
  • Version 4.16 is affected
  • unaffected from 0 to 4.16 (excl.)
  • unaffected from 6.12.113 to 6.12.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 6.18.56 to 6.18.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 7.2.10 to 7.2.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 7.3-rc6 to * (incl.)

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