# cveboard — Historical CVE brief

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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation.

## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2026-74688"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-08-22T15:32:53.423Z"
updatedAt: "2026-10-16T19:16:09.209Z"
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-2026-74688"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-74688.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-74688"
title: "sctp: clear control chunk transport if it is being removed"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nsctp: clear control chunk transport if it is being removed\n\nsctp_make_heartbeat_ack() caches the destination transport in\nchunk-\u003etransport without taking a reference. When src_out_of_asoc_ok is\nenabled, the HEARTBEAT ACK may remain queued on control_chunk_list instead\nof being transmitted immediately.\n\nIf the peer transport is removed while the chunk is still queued,\nsctp_assoc_rm_peer() drops the transport and schedules it for RCU freeing,\nbut only clears cached transport pointers in out_chunk_list.  The queued\ncontrol chunk therefore retains a dangling transport pointer.\n\nOnce an ASCONF_ACK clears the suppression and the queued control chunk is\ntransmitted, SCTP dereferences the stale transport pointer, leading to a\nuse-after-free.\n\nFix this by also clearing chunk-\u003etransport for queued control chunks in\ncontrol_chunk_list when removing the transport."
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