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CVE-2026-744698.8High

sctp: prevent peer transport count overflow

Linux

Not in CISA KEVVendor fix available
1.5%probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
73rd percentile
050100

Higher than 73% of scored CVEs

8.8HighCVSS 3.1
LowHigh

DescriptionNVD

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.

Coverage1 article · 1 outlet

First in our coverage: SecurityOnline, 18 Sep.

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