# cveboard — Historical CVE brief

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## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2026-68300"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-08-10T12:02:34.168Z"
updatedAt: "2026-10-19T21:09:04.214Z"
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-2026-68300"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-68300.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-68300"
title: "sctp: auth: verify auth requirement when auth_chunk is NULL"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nsctp: auth: verify auth requirement when auth_chunk is NULL\n\nsctp_auth_chunk_verify() returns true unconditionally when\nchunk-\u003eauth_chunk is NULL, silently skipping authentication.\nThis is incorrect when:\n\n1. skb_clone() failed in the BH receive path, leaving auth_chunk\n   NULL. In sctp_endpoint_bh_rcv() asoc is NULL for new\n   connections, so the early sctp_auth_recv_cid() check cannot\n   catch this.\n\n2. No AUTH chunk precedes COOKIE-ECHO, so skb_clone() is never\n   called and auth_chunk remains NULL.\n\nFix by checking sctp_auth_recv_cid() when auth_chunk is NULL:\nif authentication is required, return false to drop the chunk;\notherwise continue normally."
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