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CVE-2026-64564 (GCVE-0-2026-64564)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-08-04 06:23 – Updated: 2026-08-04 06:23

Title

sctp: don't free the ASCONF's own transport in DEL-IP processing

Summary

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: sctp: don't free the ASCONF's own transport in DEL-IP processing sctp_process_asconf() caches the transport the ASCONF chunk is processed against in asconf->transport (== chunk->transport, set once in sctp_rcv()). For an ASCONF located through its Address Parameter by __sctp_rcv_asconf_lookup(), that cached transport corresponds to the Address Parameter, which need not be the packet's source address. sctp_process_asconf_param() rejects a DEL-IP for the packet source address (ADDIP D8, SCTP_ERROR_DEL_SRC_IP), but nothing protects asconf->transport. A single ASCONF can therefore carry, in order: [Address Parameter L] [DEL-IP L] [DEL-IP 0.0.0.0] where L differs from the source. The DEL-IP for L passes the D8 check and calls sctp_assoc_rm_peer() on the transport that asconf->transport still points at, freeing it (RCU-deferred). The following wildcard DEL-IP then reuses the now-dangling asconf->transport in sctp_assoc_set_primary() and sctp_assoc_del_nonprimary_peers(): set_primary() dereferences the freed transport (->ipaddr, ->state) and plants the dangling pointer into asoc->peer.primary_path / active_path, and del_nonprimary_peers(), keeping only the pointer that is no longer on the list, removes every real transport, leaving the association with a transport_count of 0 and primary_path/active_path pointing at freed memory. Reject a DEL-IP that targets the transport the ASCONF is being processed against, mirroring the existing source-address guard, so the wildcard branch can never reuse a freed transport.

Severity

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Assigner

Linux

References

5 references

URL	Tags
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/fedeb4468987bcaff…
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/74e8f3e7114f0e26d…
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/85aca407c560aba81…
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/d136b29bf91dd8e31…
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/9b2854f86f0b56e90…

Impacted products

2 products

Vendor	Product	Version
Linux	Linux	Affected: 42e30bf3463cd37d73839376662cb79b4d5c416c , < fedeb4468987bcaff85fe3061de5ae052d414740 (git) Affected: 42e30bf3463cd37d73839376662cb79b4d5c416c , < 74e8f3e7114f0e26d1b2c4c048044db9fcc27603 (git) Affected: 42e30bf3463cd37d73839376662cb79b4d5c416c , < 85aca407c560aba81b5ce9d3d6cf94c74077d19b (git) Affected: 42e30bf3463cd37d73839376662cb79b4d5c416c , < d136b29bf91dd8e3161281b87de597b7311d9462 (git) Affected: 42e30bf3463cd37d73839376662cb79b4d5c416c , < 9b2854f86f0b56e9027d68e7a3fc909d1a9b566f (git)
Linux	Linux	Affected: 2.6.25 Unaffected: 0 , < 2.6.25 (semver) Unaffected: 6.6.148 , ≤ 6.6.* (semver) Unaffected: 6.12.101 , ≤ 6.12.* (semver) Unaffected: 6.18.42 , ≤ 6.18.* (semver) Unaffected: 7.1.6 , ≤ 7.1.* (semver) Unaffected: 7.2-rc5 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)

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GHSA-XW85-W2Q2-369X

Vulnerability from github – Published: 2026-08-04 09:31 – Updated: 2026-08-04 09:31

Details

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

sctp: don't free the ASCONF's own transport in DEL-IP processing

sctp_process_asconf() caches the transport the ASCONF chunk is processed against in asconf->transport (== chunk->transport, set once in sctp_rcv()). For an ASCONF located through its Address Parameter by __sctp_rcv_asconf_lookup(), that cached transport corresponds to the Address Parameter, which need not be the packet's source address.

sctp_process_asconf_param() rejects a DEL-IP for the packet source address (ADDIP D8, SCTP_ERROR_DEL_SRC_IP), but nothing protects asconf->transport. A single ASCONF can therefore carry, in order:

[Address Parameter L] [DEL-IP L] [DEL-IP 0.0.0.0]

where L differs from the source. The DEL-IP for L passes the D8 check and calls sctp_assoc_rm_peer() on the transport that asconf->transport still points at, freeing it (RCU-deferred). The following wildcard DEL-IP then reuses the now-dangling asconf->transport in sctp_assoc_set_primary() and sctp_assoc_del_nonprimary_peers(): set_primary() dereferences the freed transport (->ipaddr, ->state) and plants the dangling pointer into asoc->peer.primary_path / active_path, and del_nonprimary_peers(), keeping only the pointer that is no longer on the list, removes every real transport, leaving the association with a transport_count of 0 and primary_path/active_path pointing at freed memory.

Reject a DEL-IP that targets the transport the ASCONF is being processed against, mirroring the existing source-address guard, so the wildcard branch can never reuse a freed transport.

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