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## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2026-53225"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-06-25T08:39:25.911Z"
updatedAt: "2026-10-19T19:57:29.994Z"
importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:58:20.586Z"
snapshot: {"id":"cve_2026-10-24_midnight_baseline","at":"2026-10-24T00:00:00.000Z","source":"https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/releases/tag/cve_2026-10-24_0100Z"}
url: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-53225"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-53225.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-53225"
title: "sctp: fix uninit-value in __sctp_rcv_asconf_lookup()"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nsctp: fix uninit-value in __sctp_rcv_asconf_lookup()\n\n__sctp_rcv_asconf_lookup() in net/sctp/input.c only checks that the ASCONF\nchunk can hold the ADDIP header and a parameter header, then calls\naf-\u003efrom_addr_param(), which reads the full address (16 bytes for IPv6)\ntrusting the parameter's declared length.\n\nAn unauthenticated peer can send a truncated trailing ASCONF chunk that\ndeclares an IPv6 address parameter but stops after the 4-byte parameter\nheader; reached from the no-association lookup path, from_addr_param() then\nreads uninitialized bytes past the parameter.\n\nImpact: an unauthenticated SCTP peer makes the receive path read up to 16\nbytes of uninitialized memory past a truncated ASCONF address parameter.\n\nThe sibling __sctp_rcv_init_lookup() bounds parameters with\nsctp_walk_params(); this path open-codes the fetch and omits the bound.\nVerify the whole address parameter lies within the chunk before\nfrom_addr_param() reads it, the same class of fix as commit 51e5ad549c43\n(\"net: sctp: fix KMSAN uninit-value in sctp_inq_pop\")."
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