CVE-2026-64551 (GCVE-0-2026-64551)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-07-27 20:10 – Updated: 2026-07-27 20:10
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Title
sctp: validate STALE_COOKIE cause length before reading staleness
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
sctp: validate STALE_COOKIE cause length before reading staleness
When an ERROR chunk with a STALE_COOKIE cause is received in the
COOKIE_ECHOED state, sctp_sf_do_5_2_6_stale() reads the 4-byte Measure
of Staleness that follows the cause header:
err = (struct sctp_errhdr *)(chunk->skb->data);
stale = ntohl(*(__be32 *)((u8 *)err + sizeof(*err)));
err is the first cause in the chunk, not the STALE_COOKIE cause that
caused the dispatch, and nothing guarantees the staleness field is
present. sctp_walk_errors() only requires a cause to be as long as the
4-byte header, so for a STALE_COOKIE cause of length 4 the read runs
past the cause, and for a minimal ERROR chunk past skb->tail. The value
is echoed to the peer in the Cookie Preservative of the reply INIT,
leaking uninitialized memory.
sctp_sf_cookie_echoed_err() already walks to the STALE_COOKIE cause, so
check its length there and pass it to sctp_sf_do_5_2_6_stale(), which
reads that cause instead of the first one. A STALE_COOKIE cause too
short to hold the staleness field is discarded.
The read is reachable by any peer that can drive an association into
COOKIE_ECHOED, including an unprivileged process using a raw SCTP socket
in a user and network namespace.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
Assigner
References
8 references
Impacted products
2 products
| Vendor | Product | Version | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Linux | Linux |
Affected:
1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 , < 6022da37786701df1fc5dd946a6dcba59d5473b1
(git)
Affected: 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 , < 861f884f5471632c731cbbd612a1c072e391a624 (git) Affected: 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 , < 588706ebaf8cdb4a4161602949eba365514b1db1 (git) Affected: 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 , < a257b41ddfe9e327b26581ad2777f04b23ac73f5 (git) Affected: 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 , < 08a8f2d13f703924316e9aeac863a88ef50990c7 (git) Affected: 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 , < ebe0a55d954fa8da383b6192edb8f763dcb002d5 (git) Affected: 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 , < bbd6b2ea966cf57b6ae095cf5a8dbc993cd197a0 (git) Affected: 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 , < 1cd23ca80784223fa2204e16203f754da4e821f8 (git) |
|
| Linux | Linux |
Affected:
2.6.12
Unaffected: 0 , < 2.6.12 (semver) Unaffected: 5.10.261 , ≤ 5.10.* (semver) Unaffected: 5.15.212 , ≤ 5.15.* (semver) Unaffected: 6.1.178 , ≤ 6.1.* (semver) Unaffected: 6.6.145 , ≤ 6.6.* (semver) Unaffected: 6.12.97 , ≤ 6.12.* (semver) Unaffected: 6.18.40 , ≤ 6.18.* (semver) Unaffected: 7.1.5 , ≤ 7.1.* (semver) Unaffected: 7.2-rc4 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix) |
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