# 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-2026-74469"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-08-15T12:27:06.873Z"
updatedAt: "2026-10-16T19:05:47.493Z"
importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:58:30.346Z"
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-2026-74469"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-74469.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-74469"
title: "sctp: prevent peer transport count overflow"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nsctp: prevent peer transport count overflow\n\nsctp_assoc_add_peer() increments the association's 16-bit transport_count\nfor every new unique peer. Adding the 65,536th transport wraps the count to\nzero.\n\nSCTP sock_diag uses transport_count to reserve the INET_DIAG_PEERS payload,\nthen copies one sockaddr_storage for every entry in transport_addr_list.\nAfter the wrap, a diagnostic dump reserves an empty payload and writes\n8 MiB of peer addresses past the skb tail.\n\nReject a new unique peer when transport_count has reached U16_MAX. Perform\nthe check after the existing-peer lookup so a duplicate address continues\nto return its existing transport at the limit."
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