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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation. ## Source facts (JSON-quoted data) CNA source text (English) id: "CVE-2026-64551" idYear: 2026 status: "PUBLISHED" publishedAt: "2026-07-27T20:10:40.012Z" updatedAt: "2026-10-19T20:48:40.456Z" importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:58:25.636Z" 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-2026-64551" json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-64551.json" sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-64551" title: "sctp: validate STALE_COOKIE cause length before reading staleness" summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nsctp: validate STALE_COOKIE cause length before reading staleness\n\nWhen an ERROR chunk with a STALE_COOKIE cause is received in the\nCOOKIE_ECHOED state, sctp_sf_do_5_2_6_stale() reads the 4-byte Measure\nof Staleness that follows the cause header:\n\n\terr = (struct sctp_errhdr *)(chunk-\u003eskb-\u003edata);\n\tstale = ntohl(*(__be32 *)((u8 *)err + sizeof(*err)));\n\nerr is the first cause in the chunk, not the STALE_COOKIE cause that\ncaused the dispatch, and nothing guarantees the staleness field is\npresent. sctp_walk_errors() only requires a cause to be as long as the\n4-byte header, so for a STALE_COOKIE cause of length 4 the read runs\npast the cause, and for a minimal ERROR chunk past skb-\u003etail. The value\nis echoed to the peer in the Cookie Preservative of the reply INIT,\nleaking uninitialized memory.\n\nsctp_sf_cookie_echoed_err() already walks to the STALE_COOKIE cause, so\ncheck its length there and pass it to sctp_sf_do_5_2_6_stale(), which\nreads that cause instead of the first one. A STALE_COOKIE cause too\nshort to hold the staleness field is discarded.\n\nThe read is reachable by any peer that can drive an association into\nCOOKIE_ECHOED, including an unprivileged process using a raw SCTP socket\nin a user and network namespace." affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"6022da37786701df1fc5dd946a6dcba59d5473b1"},{"version":"1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"861f884f5471632c731cbbd612a1c072e391a624"},{"version":"1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"588706ebaf8cdb4a4161602949eba365514b1db1"},{"version":"1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"a257b41ddfe9e327b26581ad2777f04b23ac73f5"},{"version":"1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"08a8f2d13f703924316e9aeac863a88ef50990c7"},{"version":"1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"ebe0a55d954fa8da383b6192edb8f763dcb002d5"},{"version":"1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"bbd6b2ea966cf57b6ae095cf5a8dbc993cd197a0"},{"version":"1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"1cd23ca80784223fa2204e16203f754da4e821f8"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"2.6.12","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"2.6.12"},{"version":"5.10.261","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.10.*"},{"version":"5.15.212","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.15.*"},{"version":"6.1.178","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.1.*"},{"version":"6.6.145","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.6.*"},{"version":"6.12.97","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.12.*"},{"version":"6.18.40","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.18.*"},{"version":"7.1.5","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"7.1.*"},{"version":"7.2","status":"unaffected","versionType":"original_commit_for_fix","lessThanOrEqual":"*"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"affected"}] ## Source licences and attribution CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities: https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog (US government work) GitHub Advisory Database: https://github.com/advisories (CC BY 4.0) Have I Been Pwned: https://haveibeenpwned.com/ (CC BY 4.0) CVE Program (CVE records): https://www.cve.org/Legal/TermsOfUse (CVE Terms of Use) Copyright © 1999-2026, The MITRE Corporation. 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