GHSA-55hr-9mvf-6m8fHighCVSS 8.1

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: sctp: fix auth_hmacs array...

Published
August 10, 2026
Last Modified
August 19, 2026

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📋 Description

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

sctp: fix auth_hmacs array size in struct sctp_cookie

The auth_hmacs array in struct sctp_cookie is supposed to store a complete SCTP_AUTH_HMAC_ALGO parameter, which consists of a struct sctp_paramhdr followed by N HMAC identifiers.

However, the array size was calculated using an extra 2 bytes instead of sizeof(struct sctp_paramhdr), which is 4 bytes. When four HMAC identifiers are configured, the HMAC-ALGO parameter stored in the endpoint is larger than the auth_hmacs buffer in the cookie.

As a result, sctp_association_init() copies beyond the end of auth_hmacs when initializing the association, corrupting the adjacent auth_chunks field. This can lead to an invalid HMAC identifier being accepted and later cause an out-of-bounds read in sctp_auth_get_hmac().

Fix the array size calculation by including the full SCTP parameter header size.

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