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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation. ## Source facts (JSON-quoted data) CNA source text (English) id: "CVE-2026-74588" idYear: 2026 status: "PUBLISHED" publishedAt: "2026-08-22T15:31:40.466Z" updatedAt: "2026-10-16T19:05:59.010Z" 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-2026-74588" json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-74588.json" sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-74588" title: "sctp: keep chunk-\u003etransport in step with the list it is queued on" summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nsctp: keep chunk-\u003etransport in step with the list it is queued on\n\n__sctp_outq_flush_rtx() moves a gap-acked chunk onto another transport's\ntransmitted list without updating chunk-\u003etransport:\n\n\tif (chunk-\u003etsn_gap_acked) {\n\t\tlist_move_tail(&chunk-\u003etransmitted_list,\n\t\t\t &transport-\u003etransmitted);\n\t\tcontinue;\n\t}\n\nThe chunk then sits on a live transport's list while chunk-\u003etransport still\nnames a different one. If that transport is removed - sctp_assoc_rm_peer()\nfrom an ASCONF Delete-IP - sctp_transport_free() RCU-frees it and the chunk\nis left with a dangling pointer. sctp_assoc_rm_peer() scrubs\npeer-\u003etransmitted and asoc-\u003eoutqueue.out_chunk_list, but the chunk is on\nneither.\n\nThe pointer is not followed while tsn_gap_acked is set. A SACK that\nreneges on the TSN clears the flag, and the next SACK reaches\n\n\ttchunk-\u003etransport-\u003eflight_size -= sctp_data_size(tchunk);\n\ninside the freed transport. KASAN reports a slab-use-after-free read in\nsctp_check_transmitted(), freed from sctp_assoc_rm_peer(). Both the\nremoval and the SACKs come from the association peer.\n\nSet chunk-\u003etransport at the move. The ordinary resend path needs nothing:\nit reaches its list_move_tail() only after sctp_packet_append_chunk()\nreturned SCTP_XMIT_OK, and __sctp_packet_append_chunk() has rebound the\nchunk by then.\n\nDiscovered by XBOW, triaged by Baul Lee \u003cbaul.lee@xbow.com\u003e" affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"6575fb17230814b48b471727c8410c0aadff9274"},{"version":"1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"6b9e2ea2057113f3393990ba646d2d97c719a80d"},{"version":"1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"874a7c2b5e184f06134fdfde27e9ce9271bafe58"},{"version":"1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"1adf929121e13e0b19200bb9fef715b918d483fe"},{"version":"1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"e2e7c1de0e226ca1b7fea2de57a6c9bca408709b"},{"version":"1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"2b3b5eec8b2c30ee237e3c31a6a38de9c39d804d"},{"version":"1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"5ccf35ef0ed6059cdf8b1f4606a6584d5b67166b"},{"version":"1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"9f2cf069a9a72a2d6b97ca8b4c70e714aac99749"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"2.6.12","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"2.6.12"},{"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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