CVE-2026-68376
sctp: fix auth_hmacs array size in struct sctp_cookie
- Published
- Aug 10, 2026
- Updated
- Aug 19, 2026
- Assigning CNA
- Linux
- Evidence observed
- Sep 22, 2026
Primary CVSS
nvd · CVSS 3.1
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HLow · next 30 days
- Percentile
- 40.1%
- Model date
- Sep 21, 2026
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Summary
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.
Sources
1Proof-of-concept exploit for CVE-2026-68376 in Ubuntu kernel 7.0.0-30, leveraging SCTP chunk handling and PTE manipulation to escalate privileges to root.
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