CVE-2026-74469
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.
Does this matter?
High impact if exploited, but EPSS currently rates exploitation as unlikely (0.47%). Schedule it in the normal patch cycle and watch for a rise in EPSS or a public 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.
- CVSS 3.1
- 8.8 HIGHCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- EPSS
- 0.47% probability · 39th percentile
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
- Source
- 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
References
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/09e722030e8148ba4ed1e42c6b2ea57bda9f9895
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/4ba5bf7ed50f235ea4581de8e7a0002f4ed287b0
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/546221b86ceeba0d8fec92d46a0604bb7b62be07
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/6201cd1d70f1670c5b31ac506e7ab2fa7b8e7f75
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/80f48523a0fe42db2e7375dff4e38a25c117090a
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b453e00da1211e997b82743d28af7714c59c05c8
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/bd0e9289e2642f6a5c54faad304ce0f41e926d22
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/dfea32dd76f390e3155177b0038cc47b01386198
Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA. Refreshed daily.