# cveboard — Historical CVE brief

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Fix information unknown; no fixed version is derived here. Missing information does not prove that no fix exists.
Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation.

## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2026-72242"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-08-15T05:54:30.378Z"
updatedAt: "2026-10-16T18:45:04.443Z"
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-2026-72242"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-72242.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-72242"
title: "selinux: avoid sk_socket dereference in selinux_sctp_bind_connect()"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nselinux: avoid sk_socket dereference in selinux_sctp_bind_connect()\n\nselinux_sctp_bind_connect() dereferences sk-\u003esk_socket to pass a\nstruct socket * to selinux_socket_bind() and\nselinux_socket_connect_helper().  However, when the hook is invoked\nfrom the ASCONF softirq path (sctp_process_asconf), there is no file\nreference guaranteeing that sk-\u003esk_socket is non-NULL.  The setsockopt\ncallers (bindx, connectx, set_primary, sendmsg connect) hold a file\nreference and are not affected.\n\nBoth selinux_socket_bind() and selinux_socket_connect_helper()\nimmediately resolve sock-\u003esk, never using the struct socket * for\nanything else.  Refactor the inner logic into helpers that take a\nstruct sock * directly so that selinux_sctp_bind_connect() never needs\nto touch sk-\u003esk_socket at all."
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