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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation. ## Source facts (JSON-quoted data) CNA source text (English) id: "CVE-2026-74586" idYear: 2026 status: "PUBLISHED" publishedAt: "2026-08-22T15:31:39.094Z" updatedAt: "2026-10-16T19:05:58.687Z" 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-2026-74586" json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-74586.json" sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-74586" title: "sctp: clear new_transport when removing a peer" summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nsctp: clear new_transport when removing a peer\n\nsctp_process_asconf_param() stores a newly added peer transport in\nasoc-\u003enew_transport. After all parameters in the ASCONF chunk have been\nprocessed, sctp_sf_do_asconf() uses this pointer to send a HEARTBEAT to the\nnew transport.\n\nAn authenticated ASCONF from a remote SCTP peer can add a transport and\nremove it again with a wildcard DEL-IP parameter in the same chunk. The\nwildcard deletion preserves the transport on which the ASCONF arrived, but\nremoves the newly added transport through\nsctp_assoc_del_nonprimary_peers(). The removal does not clear\nasoc-\u003enew_transport, leaving it pointing to the removed transport.\n\nsctp_sf_do_asconf() then creates a HEARTBEAT whose chunk-\u003etransport points\nto the removed transport without holding a transport reference. During\nlocal address replacement, src_out_of_asoc_ok keeps this HEARTBEAT on\ncontrol_chunk_list. After the transport is freed by RCU, a successful\nASCONF_ACK for the replacement address releases the queued HEARTBEAT and\nsctp_outq_select_transport() reads the freed transport's state.\n\nThe issue was found during a static audit of SCTP objects. With an\nauthenticated peer, the reproducer triggered the same KASAN report in 2\nof 2 unpatched runs on a KASAN-enabled netdev/main kernel:\n\n BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in sctp_outq_select_transport\n Read of size 4 at addr ffff88800b9bd95c by task python3/197\n\n Call Trace:\n sctp_outq_select_transport+0x549/0x8b0 [sctp]\n sctp_outq_flush+0x306/0x2c60 [sctp]\n sctp_transport_immediate_rtx+0xaf/0x260 [sctp]\n sctp_process_asconf_ack+0xa48/0xf70 [sctp]\n\n Allocated by task 197:\n sctp_transport_new+0x68/0x650 [sctp]\n sctp_assoc_add_peer+0x258/0x12a0 [sctp]\n sctp_process_asconf+0x5e9/0x1090 [sctp]\n\n Last potentially related work creation:\n __call_rcu_common.constprop.0+0x77/0xb70\n sctp_assoc_del_nonprimary_peers+0x7c/0xd0 [sctp]\n sctp_process_asconf+0xd9c/0x1090 [sctp]\n\nThe first invalid access was a four-byte read of transport-\u003estate at\nnet/sctp/outqueue.c:833. The same reproducer completed the full\nauthenticated ASCONF and local-address replacement sequence with this\nchange without a KASAN report or oops.\n\nClear new_transport when its peer is removed, before it can be used to\ncreate the HEARTBEAT." affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"6af29ccc223b0feb6fc6112281c3fa3cdb1afddf","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"c0f973bb5118dd1b146cda3fcc8af6f6057befec"},{"version":"6af29ccc223b0feb6fc6112281c3fa3cdb1afddf","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"3b539b317cd052236fed0350364ff1268996ba46"},{"version":"6af29ccc223b0feb6fc6112281c3fa3cdb1afddf","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"db9d8e3b670f841755bc2018f178472dc6064d27"},{"version":"6af29ccc223b0feb6fc6112281c3fa3cdb1afddf","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"31efa656cf6aface26e88f038c14f22ee6ca1500"},{"version":"6af29ccc223b0feb6fc6112281c3fa3cdb1afddf","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"291accf36febce751021888de5f15090f4875b56"},{"version":"6af29ccc223b0feb6fc6112281c3fa3cdb1afddf","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"ca33df36aa0143a1d04f57d2086020c12e7eddb7"},{"version":"6af29ccc223b0feb6fc6112281c3fa3cdb1afddf","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"163847552a571bd55094291f4ffcdc1de0f14a7b"},{"version":"6af29ccc223b0feb6fc6112281c3fa3cdb1afddf","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"beb33f8ee1ca83acddb2a5ae80f3d22ec550b4c3"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"3.2","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"3.2"},{"version":"5.10.265","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.10.*"},{"version":"5.15.216","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.15.*"},{"version":"6.1.183","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.1.*"},{"version":"6.6.152","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.6.*"},{"version":"6.12.104","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.12.*"},{"version":"6.18.45","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.18.*"},{"version":"7.1.9","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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