sctp: fix use-after-free of cached ASCONF chunk (Linux Linux)

CVE-2026-74587
CRITICAL 9.8

At a glance

Source
NVD
EPSS
EPSS 0.50 % · percentile 43 ()
State
PUBLISHED
Published
Updated
Assigner
Linux
NVD status
Received

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: sctp: fix use-after-free of cached ASCONF chunk addip_last_asconf caches the outstanding outbound ASCONF chunk. The normal ASCONF-ACK completion path releases the chunk and clears the pointer. However, sctp_asconf_queue_teardown() releases the cached chunk without clearing addip_last_asconf. During peer restart handling, sctp_sf_do_dupcook_a() queues SCTP_CMD_PURGE_ASCONF_QUEUE, which invokes sctp_asconf_queue_teardown() while the association remains alive and leaves the pointer dangling. A delayed authenticated ASCONF-ACK can then reach sctp_sf_do_asconf_ack(), which accesses the stale chunk and passes it to sctp_process_asconf_ack(), causing a use-after-free and a second release. Clearing the pointer exposes a race with T4 expiry. Peer restart handling queues the timer stop before the purge, but SCTP_CMD_TIMER_STOP uses timer_delete(), which does not wait for a callback already running on another CPU. Such a callback can reach sctp_sf_t4_timer_expire() after the purge and dereference NULL. Clear addip_last_asconf after releasing the cached chunk, and make sctp_sf_t4_timer_expire() consume a stale T4 expiry if no outstanding ASCONF remains.

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Scores

VersionScoreVectorScored by
CVSS 3.1CRITICAL 9.8CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HLinux
CVSS 3.1CRITICAL 9.8CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HNVD · 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67 (Secondary)

European references

CERT-FR advisories

Affected products

ProductVersions
Linux · Linuxaffected a000c01e60e40e15304ffe48fff051d17a7bea91 < 10459b03e2d9ee12435e96f587de4d4cacdbf435 ; affected a000c01e60e40e15304ffe48fff051d17a7bea91 < e1bb114e09372fd6e03387ced9ef566da336ed6c ; affected a000c01e60e40e15304ffe48fff051d17a7bea91 < 179676f0166230c80053a392303485b37c93dd33 ; affected a000c01e60e40e15304ffe48fff051d17a7bea91 < dc67d528c2fa939cec7fe3bf7f3089c8d281ca3d ; affected a000c01e60e40e15304ffe48fff051d17a7bea91 < 618b5c6d049896fcfabb91afc072954c92cb2693 ; affected a000c01e60e40e15304ffe48fff051d17a7bea91 < 07daf4f9750104960a1d60831b2353c0d41f35fb
Linux · Linuxaffected 3.0 ; unaffected 0 < 3.0 ; unaffected 5.10.265 ≤ 5.10.* ; unaffected 5.15.216 ≤ 5.15.* ; unaffected 6.1.183 ≤ 6.1.* ; unaffected 6.6.152 ≤ 6.6.*

Sources

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