CVE-2026-74469

sctp: prevent peer transport count overflow

HIGH
8.8
CVSS Score
Published: August 15, 2026 at 12:27 PM UTC
Updated: October 16, 2026 at 08:17 PM UTC
1 product affected across 1 vendorLinux Kernel

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Severity
HIGH8.8
Exploit prediction
EPSS 1%
SSVC
No known exploit

Description

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.

Affected

Our own answer: ranges merged, affected separated from platform-only, with confidence and review flags.

4.78f840e47f190cbe61a96945c13e9551048d42cef
Vendor states this is fixed in 09e722030e8148ba4ed1e42c6b2ea57bda9f9895 (fixed)
Vendor states this is fixed in 4ba5bf7ed50f235ea4581de8e7a0002f4ed287b0 (fixed)
Vendor states this is fixed in 546221b86ceeba0d8fec92d46a0604bb7b62be07 (fixed)
Vendor states this is fixed in 6201cd1d70f1670c5b31ac506e7ab2fa7b8e7f75 (fixed)
Vendor states this is fixed in 80f48523a0fe42db2e7375dff4e38a25c117090a (fixed)
Vendor states this is fixed in b453e00da1211e997b82743d28af7714c59c05c8 (fixed)
Vendor states this is fixed in bd0e9289e2642f6a5c54faad304ce0f41e926d22 (fixed)
Vendor states this is fixed in dfea32dd76f390e3155177b0038cc47b01386198 (fixed)
Vendor states this is fixed in 4.7 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 5.10.265 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 5.15.216 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 6.1.183 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 6.12.103 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 6.18.44 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 6.6.151 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 7.1.8 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 7.2 (unaffected)

Remediation

No guide yet

No remediation guidance has been written for this CVE yet, and no fixed version or vendor advisory is recorded against it.

SSVC — Action Prioritization

SSVCNo known exploitNot automatableTotal impact

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CVSS

8.8HIGHLinux
Vector?

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