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## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2026-68376"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-08-10T12:03:54.666Z"
updatedAt: "2026-10-19T21:09:06.621Z"
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-2026-68376"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-68376.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-68376"
title: "sctp: fix auth_hmacs array size in struct sctp_cookie"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nsctp: fix auth_hmacs array size in struct sctp_cookie\n\nThe auth_hmacs array in struct sctp_cookie is supposed to store a complete\nSCTP_AUTH_HMAC_ALGO parameter, which consists of a struct sctp_paramhdr\nfollowed by N HMAC identifiers.\n\nHowever, the array size was calculated using an extra 2 bytes instead of\nsizeof(struct sctp_paramhdr), which is 4 bytes. When four HMAC identifiers\nare configured, the HMAC-ALGO parameter stored in the endpoint is larger\nthan the auth_hmacs buffer in the cookie.\n\nAs a result, sctp_association_init() copies beyond the end of auth_hmacs\nwhen initializing the association, corrupting the adjacent auth_chunks\nfield. This can lead to an invalid HMAC identifier being accepted and later\ncause an out-of-bounds read in sctp_auth_get_hmac().\n\nFix the array size calculation by including the full SCTP parameter header\nsize."
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