CVE-2026-68376CWE-787

CVE-2026-68376

High · published August 10, 2026

CVSS v3.1
8.1
EPSS
0%
Percentile
41.6
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

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.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v3.1
8.1 · HIGH
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00495 · 41.6th percentile
Weakness
CWE-787 · Out-of-bounds Write
Published
2026-08-10T17:20Z
References (8)
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 10 AUG 12:03Z
    sctp: fix auth_hmacs array size in struct sctp_cookie
    cvelistv5