CVE-2026-52917
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: sctp: diag: reject stale associations in dump_one path The SCTP exact sock_diag lookup can hold a transport reference, block on lock_sock(sk), and then resume after sctp_association_free() has marked the association dead and freed its bind address list. When that happens, inet_assoc_attr_size() and inet_diag_msg_sctpasoc_fill() can still dereference association state that is no longer valid for reporting. In particular, inet_diag_msg_sctpasoc_fill() may read an empty bind-address list as a real sctp_sockaddr_entry and trigger an out-of-bounds read from unrelated association memory. Reject the association after taking the socket lock if it has been reaped or detached from the endpoint, and report the lookup as stale. This keeps the exact dump-one path from formatting torn association state.
Predictions
Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.
Mitigations
No mitigations published for this CVE yet.
The vendor-content worker queues fetches as references arrive (check back in a few minutes). Or โ if you've already worked around this in production โ publish your fix to the community-verified tier.
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References
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/480f754580b5686b928977d16a59f20cef83ff01
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/5425de8bd6e9fe5bd67d158e3348171ae7510117
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/5eba3e48d78edd7551b992cb7ba687019b3a78da
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/6657af827e21883ae90693e42e7f59a6aab690b5
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/78c4f964b2f94e405721c093773f6250e1e676b2
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b2be72d401833194917e44fbd8d8144bb4f2db16
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/e97c2a535e23ed0fdd2660993fb3f10d9535c9bc
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/f5af203dec6e0e7a6090fcc2130e9f3901bfc84d
Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.
Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.